causality

[Prof David West]

I remember, a while back, frequent discussions about causality at the "mother church."  My memory is that those issues were never 'resolved'; perhaps because we did not have Judea Pearl's -  Book of Why - to provide us with a formal mathematics to explain all of causality.

dave west

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[Frank Wimberly-2]

David,

How have you been?  The CMU group that I worked in and Pearl's group at UCLA worked in the same area.  As I recall, he invented the concept of d-separation and our group created algorithms to use it in inferring causal models based on observational data (i.e. not experimental).  My colleagues were Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines.

I will look for the book you mentioned.

Frank 

On Mon, May 27, 2019, 12:19 AM Prof David West <[hidden email]> wrote:

I remember, a while back, frequent discussions about causality at the "mother church."  My memory is that those issues were never 'resolved'; perhaps because we did not have Judea Pearl's -  Book of Why - to provide us with a formal mathematics to explain all of causality.

dave west

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