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Edited by Vladimir_Nesov, Ruby, Grognor, et al. last updated 7th Feb 2021

Causality is the intuitive notion that some events happening "result" in other events happening. What's going on with that? What does it mean for A to cause B? How do we figure out the causal relationship between things?

See also

  • Free will
  • Teleology
  • Beliefs require observations

External links

  • Philip Dawid's explication of Pearl's model, and two ways of thinking about nonrandom sampling by Philip Dawid and Andrew Gelman - Causal inference as "the task of using data collected under one regime to infer about the properties of another".
  • Resolving disputes between J. Pearl and D. Rubin on causal inference and More on Pearl's and Rubin's frameworks for causal inference by Andrew Gelman
  • If correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does? by Michael Nielsen
  • Correlation is Evidence of Causation by Kim Øyhus
  • Judea Pearls's works: Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Book of Why, A Primer on Causality
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