Posts Tagged ‘why0mg’

Barbara Stoddard Burks – Wikipedia

Sunday, March 3rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Stoddard_Burks

But For Definition

Friday, March 1st, 2019

http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/B/ButFor.aspx

Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice » On the Classification and Subsumption of Causal Models

Friday, March 1st, 2019

http://causality.cs.ucla.edu/blog/index.php/2016/06/28/on-the-classification-and-subsumption-of-causal-models/

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The taxonomy that has helped me immensely is the three-level hierarchy described in chapter 1 of my book Causality: 1. association, 2. intervention, and 3 counterfactuals. It is a useful hierarchy because it has an objective criterion for the classification: You cannot answer questions at level i unless you have assumptions from level i or higher.
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Mediation (statistics) – Wikipedia

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediation_(statistics)

Instrumental variables estimation – Wikipedia

Sunday, February 3rd, 2019

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Intuitively, IVs are used when an explanatory variable of interest is correlated with the error term, in which case ordinary least squares and ANOVA give biased results.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_variables_estimation

Climbing the ladder of causality – Michiel Stock – machine learning and computational biology geek

Monday, January 28th, 2019

Climbing the ladder of causality, by @MichielStock
https://MichielStock.github.io/causality/ Nice description of the “DO operator” & some of the maths in @yudapearl’s Book of Why

Why the Father of Modern Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused Cancer

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Why the Father of Modern #Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused
Cancer https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/ Interesting article on how even geniuses can be wrong. With a great line: “If he were alive today, Ronald Fisher would have one hell of a Twitter account.”

Bradford Hill criteria – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Hill_criteria

Austin Bradford Hill – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Bradford_Hill

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Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS[1] (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991), English epidemiologistand statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the “Bradford Hill” criteria for determining a causal association.[2][3]
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British Doctors Study – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Doctors_Study

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The British Doctors’ Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and in … Context[edit]. Although there had been suspicions of a link between smokingand various diseases, the evidence for this link had been largely circumstantial. … The original study was run by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill.
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