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The art of causal conjecture

Title
The art of causal conjecture / Glenn Shafer.
Author
Shafer, Glenn, 1946-
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description
xx, 511 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Artificial intelligence
Uniform Title
Artificial intelligence (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-500) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Event Trees -- 3. Probability Trees -- 4. The Meaning of Probability -- 5. Independent Events -- 6. Events Tracking Events -- 7. Events as Signs of Events -- 8. Independent Variables -- 9. Variables Tracking Variables -- 10. Variables as Signs of Variables -- 11. An Abstract Theory of Event Trees -- 12. Martingale Trees -- 13. Refining -- 14. Principles of Causal Conjecture -- 15. Causal Models -- 16. Representing Probability Trees -- App. A. Huygens's Probability Trees -- App. B. Some Elements of Graph Theory -- App. C. Some Elements of Order Theory -- App. D. The Sample-Space Framework for Probability -- App. E. Prediction in Probability Spaces -- App. F. Sample-Space Concepts of Independence -- App. G. Prediction Diagrams -- App. H. Abstract Stochastic Processes.
ISBN
026219368X (alk. paper)
LCCN
96012572
OCLC
  • 34411340
  • ocm34411340
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries