arundelo comments on Causal Diagrams and Causal Models - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 12 October 2012 04:09:28AM *  3 points [-]

This is great!

Tpyos:

  • Shortly after the sentence, "We could consider three hypothetical causal diagrams over only these two variables", one of the "Earthquake --> Recession" tables gives p(¬e) as 0.70 when it should be 0.71 (so it and 0.29 sum to one).

  • After the sentence, "So since all three variables are correlated, can we distinguish between, say, these three causal models?", this diagram I think is meant to have "Recession" on top and "Burglar" on the bottom. (Vaniver also noticed this one.)

Edit:

  • The paragraph that starts with "Sure! First, we marginalize over the 'exercise' variable to get the table for just weight and Internet use" needs to have s/normal-weight/overweight/ run on it. (And maybe have a sentence added saying that you're getting the rest of the following table by doing the same math on the other three sets of people grouped by weight and Internet usage.)
Comment author: VincentYu 12 October 2012 12:36:30PM 1 point [-]

Typo:

Tpyos:

Comment author: arundelo 12 October 2012 01:20:52PM 2 points [-]

;-)

Comment author: Alex_Altair 12 October 2012 04:56:21PM 0 points [-]

This makes me thing "T Python Operating System".

Comment author: Alex_Altair 12 October 2012 05:13:13PM 1 point [-]

Fixed.

Comment author: arundelo 12 October 2012 05:33:31PM 1 point [-]

Thanks.

The "marginalize over the 'exercise' variable" paragraph (mentioned in an edit to the grandparent) still seems to me to not match the tables.

Comment author: Alex_Altair 12 October 2012 07:56:03PM 1 point [-]

Fixed! Thanks for being persistent.