Elements of Causal Inference - Foundations and Learning Algorithms (Hardcover)

A concise and self-contained introduction to causal inference, increasingly important in data science and machine learning. The mathematization of causality is a relatively recent development, and has become increasingly important in data science and machine learning. This book offers a self-contained and concise introduction to causal models and how to learn them from data. After explaining the need for causal models and discussing some of the principles underlying causal inference, the book teaches readers how to use causal models: how to compute intervention distributions, how to infer causal models from observational and interventional data, and how causal ideas could be exploited for classical machine learning problems. All of these topics are discussed first in terms of two variables and then in the more general multivariate case. The bivariate case turns out to be a particularly hard problem for causal learning because there are no conditional independences as used by classical methods for solving multivariate cases. The authors consider analyzing statistical asymmetries between cause and effect to be highly instructive, and they report on their decade of intensive research into this problem. The book is accessible to readers with a background in machine learning or statistics, and can be used in graduate courses or as a reference for researchers. The text includes code snippets that can be copied and pasted, exercises, and an appendix with a summary of the most important technical concepts.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Elements of Causal Inference
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jonas Peters (Associate Professor of Statistics) • Dominik Janzing (Senior Research Scientist) • Bernhard Schoelkopf (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent in Tubingen, Germany, Professor for Machine Lea)
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-03731-0
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer hardware & operating systems > Handheld devices (eg Palm, PocketPC) Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Machine learning Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Neural networks Promotions
LSN:	0-262-03731-9
Barcode:	9780262037310

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