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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 22 May 2015 05:05:35PM *  1 point [-]

the methods rely on a number of assumptions that you can't test (like independance).

You can test independence. There is a ton of frequentist literature on hypothesis testing, and Bayesian methods too, of course. Did you mean something else?

Comment author: Marlon 04 June 2015 08:39:30AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't very clear, and probably misleading. Although I'm not an expert, I have "read" Pearl's book a few years ago (Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, it's available as a pdf) and it really seemed to me that some independence was hard to test, and sometimes was an assumption given the system. It's also true that I haven't read it deeper now that I have a bit more knowledge, and I lack time to do so.

If you have more hindsight about that, I would love to read it.

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