[FRIAM] Causation, Prediction, Search on Academia

[Steve Smith]

Frank -
> https://www.academia.edu/keypass/cHFjczFFMmZHUDF4em04U0hXMkdDL1IyRmRKRmI4c3VYbWFHY2crL1NxOD0tLW1jS1RtUi9EU0oySmtEck9FeEJCWnc9PQ==--9fbb49188f8eb90cc24a1781a1c49671222e77dd/t/ewjc6-N3UnAUt-baBacR/resource/work/3135365/Automated_search_for_causal_relations_Theory_and_practice?email_work_card=title
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> I hope the above link works for people who aren't Academia members.
I am able to read it online as a non-member but not able to "download".
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> Multiple times I have mentioned the book "Causation, Prediction, and
> Search" by my colleagues Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines.  I understand
> that the prospect of reading a long book can be daunting.  Glen, in
> particular, has expressed his preference for articles.  I just skimmed
> the above paper and realized that it gives an excellent and complete
> overview of the book.  One of the themes is "sometimes correlation is
> causation." 

I did not take this area of work at all seriously until maybe a year
ago...   and I appreciate this link as a "smaller bite" to take than the
whole book you referenced before.

Almost as an aside, I looked for some kind of contrast between this
effort and that of Judea Pearl, and was surprised by this co-authorship:
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AMadelyn+Glymour&s=relevancerank&text=Madelyn+Glymour&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_2

It seems Madelyn might be Clarke's (grand?)daughter and quite the
polymath herself, having won a "Screenwriter" contest?

I *do* see that Glymour's book publications on the topic of Causal
predate that of Pearls by a bit... it seems like Pearl has obtained the
lion's share of public attention for his work?   I'm not sure any of
this matters... but it fascinated me and I will now try to take a big
bite out of the paper you just referenced...

- Steve

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