Nonfiction Books Thread
Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer by Judea Pearl et al.
I've always enjoyed reading about causality, ever since EY turned us on to Pearl back in The Fabric of Real Things. Perhaps I'm inclined to enjoy this small (136 page) primer on a purely romantic, intellectual basis alone. I've read Causality four or five times now and I must confess: outside of a few toy examples, I really have no concept of how to apply this field to an actual problem. It seems probable to me, after a cursory reading of the primer, that it is more likely to teach a person this...
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