The Book Of Why: The New Science Of Cause And Effect - Autor: Judea Pearl / Dana Mackenzie (2020) [seminovo]

Condição: SEMINOVO
Ano: 2020
Acabamento: Capa comum
Dimensões: 21x14x3
Editora: Basic Books
SKU: 34337955
Código Barras: 9781541698963
Código Interno: L1
ISBN: 9781541698963
Descrição: Livro em ótimo estado geral. Folhas naturalmente amareladas pelo tempo. Em inglês. "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality -- the study of cause and effect -- on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl''s work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been (...)