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Statistical tools for valid causal inference with fewer assumptions

The original article can be found here. Causal inference is important in medical research to help determine if treatments are beneficial and if natural exposures are harmful. In many settings, data collection makes causal inference difficult without making...

How to Think Like an Epidemiologist

The original article can be found here.   How to Think Like an Epidemiologist Don’t worry, a little Bayesian analysis won’t hurt you. By Siobhan Roberts   There is a statistician’s rejoinder — sometimes offered as wry criticism,...

AI’s struggle to reach “understanding” and “meaning”

Deep learning is very good at ferreting out correlations between tons of data points, but when it comes to digging deeper into the data and forming abstractions and concepts, they barely scratch the surface (even that might be an overstatement). We have...

Professor Judea Pearl and 2-year anniversary of “The Book of Why”

On May 20, 2018, “The Book of Why” by professor Judea Pearl was published. Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 20, 2020: “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” provides us with the new tools needed to navigate the uncharted...

Pearl, Judea and Mackenzie, Dana: The book of why: the new science of cause and effect (2018)

Basic Books, New York. ISBN 9780465097609 (hardcover) Karamjit S. Gill  [email protected] University of Brighton, Brighton, UK © Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2020 ‘The Book of Why’ by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie...

Israeli-American Professor Judea Pearl Given Award for Courage

Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science at UCLA, Turing Award recipient and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, is being given CAMERA’s inaugural Ometz Award for courage in recognition of his public renunciation of his Distinguished...

Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award

Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone’s Siri speech recognition technology and Google’s driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award...

Israeli-American Professor Judea Pearl Given Award for Courage

Pearl said that his life experience and the rise of “Zionophobic” racism in academia had made it “necessary” for him to take a stand. Judea Pearl (photo credit: DANIEL PEARL FOUNDATION) Judea Pearl, father of the late journalist...

Professor Judea Pearl codes languages to challenge paradigms of computer science

Judea Pearl, an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, checks his email on a 20-year-old Wyse terminal. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin) Judea Pearl’s fourth-grade teacher and classmates insisted...