Comments on: Simpson’s paradox and Judea Pearl’s Causal Calculus http://artent.net/2013/07/15/simpsons-paradox-and-judea-pearls-causal-calculus/ We're blogging machines! Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:08:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: hundalhh http://artent.net/2013/07/15/simpsons-paradox-and-judea-pearls-causal-calculus/#comment-1426 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:49:55 +0000 http://162.243.213.31/?p=1974#comment-1426 I remember that Dr Pearl gave about three example applications of causal calculus (CC) during his 2011 KDD talk. If I recall correctly, one application was using age related medical data from one city on the US west coast to support medical interventions in another city with a different age distribution on the east coast. I have forgotten the other two applications. I found the talk difficult to understand, but I think that CC is not really that difficult—it’s just new to us. I think that CC is easier than integral calculus but harder than trigonometry. Here are a few more references.

http://formalisedthinking.wordpress.com/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/emc/causality_a_chapter_by_chapter_review/

http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jci.2013.1.issue-1/issue-files/jci.2013.1.issue-1.xml

]]> By: antianticamper http://artent.net/2013/07/15/simpsons-paradox-and-judea-pearls-causal-calculus/#comment-1419 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 23:49:10 +0000 http://162.243.213.31/?p=1974#comment-1419 Both your writeup and Mike’s were quite good. I bought Pearl’s book after pondering Simpson’s paradox for awhile and deciding, like most people, that it is surprising and important. I abandoned the book because Pearl is a very unclear writer and the application chapter was terribly disappointing. It is interesting that thus far there are few truly significant applications. But now my curiosity is piqued and so maybe I’ll return to the book.

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