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Product type Book

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804612989

Pages 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Data Science

Author (1):

Aleksander Molak

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Causality – an Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Causality – Hey, We Have Machine Learning, So Why Even Bother?

3. Chapter 2: Judea Pearl and the Ladder of Causation

4. Chapter 3: Regression, Observations, and Interventions

5. Chapter 4: Graphical Models

6. Chapter 5: Forks, Chains, and Immoralities

7. Part 2: Causal Inference

8. Chapter 6: Nodes, Edges, and Statistical (In)dependence

9. Chapter 7: The Four-Step Process of Causal Inference

10. Chapter 8: Causal Models – Assumptions and Challenges

11. Chapter 9: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – from Matching to Meta-Learners

12. Chapter 10: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Advanced Estimators, Experiments, Evaluations, and More

13. Chapter 11: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Deep Learning, NLP, and Beyond

14. Part 3: Causal Discovery

15. Chapter 12: Can I Have a Causal Graph, Please?

16. Chapter 13: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – from Assumptions to Applications

17. Chapter 14: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – Advanced Deep Learning and Beyond

18. Chapter 15: Epilogue

19. Index

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Sources of causal graphs in the real world

We have discussed graphs from several perspectives now, yet we haven’t tackled an important practical question: what is the source of causal graphs in the real world?

In this section, we’ll provide a brief overview of such sources and we’ll leave a more detailed discussion for Part 3 of the book.

On a high level, we can group the ways of obtaining causal graphs into three classes:

Causal discovery
Expert knowledge
A combination of both

Let’s discuss them briefly.

Causal discovery

Causal discovery and causal structure learning are umbrella terms for various kinds of methods used to uncover causal structure from observational or interventional data. We devote the entirety of Part 3 of this book to this topic.

Expert knowledge

Expert knowledge is a term covering various types of knowledge that can help define or disambiguate causal relations between two or more variables. Depending...