Causality
Subtitle: statistical perspectives and applications
By: Carlo Berzuini, Philip Dawid, Luisa Bernardinell
Contributors: Dawid, Philip; Bernardinell, Luisa
Series: Wiley series in probability and statistics
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9780470665565
Subjects: MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General; Causation; Estimation theory; Causality (Physics)
Description: "This book looks at a broad collection of contributions from experts in their fields"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Statistical causality : some historical remarks; title: The language of potential outcomes; title: Structural equations, graphs and interventions; title: The decision-theoretic approach to causal; title: Causal inference as a prediction problem : assumptions, identification, and evidence synthesis; title: Graph-based criteria of identifiability of causal questions; title: Causal inference from observational data : a Bayesian predictive approach; title: Causal inference from observing sequences of actions; title: Causal effects and natural laws : towards a conceptualization of causal counterfactuals; title: For non-manipulable exposures, with application to the effects of race and sex; title: Cross-classifications by joint potential outcomes; title: Estimation of direct and indirect effects; title: The mediation formula : a guide to the assessment of causal pathways in nonlinear models; title: The sufficient cause framework in statistics, philosophy and the biomedical and  social sciences; title: Inference about biological mechanism on the basis of epidemiological data; title: Ion channels and multiple sclerosis; title: Supplementary variables for causal estimation; title: Time-varying confounding : some practical considerations in a likelihood framework; title: Natural experiments as a means of testing causal inferences; title: Nonreactive and purely reactive doses in observational studies; title: Evaluation of potential mediators in randomized trials of complex interventions (psychotherapies); title: Causal inference in clinical trials; title: Granger causality and causal inference in time series analysis; title: Dynamic molecular networks and mechanisms iIn the biosciences : a statistical framework.