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 \n Master degree in Physics from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1965;  \n [Ph.D. degree](Ph.D. degree) in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY in 1965 .  \nCurrent Position  \n UCLA Computer Science Department, Cognitive Systems Lab (joined in 1970) .  \n Before: worked at RCA Research Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, on superconductive parametric and storage devices and at Electronic Memories, Inc., Hawthorne, California, on advanced memory systems.   \nAuthor's Biography  \nJudea Pearl: biographical sketch  \nA fair number of papers and authored 3 books:  \n Heuristics, Addison-Wesley, 1984;  \n Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Morgan Kaufmann, 1988;  \n Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Cambridge University Press, 2000; 2nd edition, 2009 .  \nPearl is the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002, just four months after 9/11) and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.  \n~~ ~~Motivation  \nSummary: Causal diagrams for empirical research  \nPearl, 1995  \n Show how graphical models can be used as a mathematical language for integrating statistical and subject-matter information.  \n In particular, the paper develops a principled, nonparametric framework for causal inference, in which diagrams are queried to determine if the assumptions available are sufficient for identifying causal effects from nonexperimental data.  \n~~ ~~Motivation  \nClassical example due to Cochran  \nThe experiment:  \n Experiment in which soil fumigants, X , are used to increase oat crop yields, Y , by controlling the eelworm population, Z.  \n Note that X may also have direct effects, both beneficial and adverse, on yields beside the control of eelworms.  \nClassical case of counfounding bias:  \n Controlled randomised experiments are infeasible: farmers insist on deciding for themselves which plots are to be fumigated;  \n Farmers' choice of treatment depends on last year's eelworm population, Z0, an unknown quantity strongly correlated with this year's population.  \n~~ ~~Motivation  \nClassical example due to Cochran  \n Fortunately, through laboratory analysis of soil samples, we can determine the eelworm populations ( Z ) before and after the treatment.  \n Furthermore, because the fumigants are known to be active for a short period only, we can safely assume that they do not affect the growth of eelworms surviving the treatment.  \n Instead, eelworm growth depends on the population of birds and other predators ( B ), which is correlated, in turn, with last year's eelworm population and hence with the treatment itself.  \n~~ ~~Motivation  \nFirst step: construct a causal diagram  \nZ1: the eelworm population, both size and type, before treatment;  \nZ2: the eelworm population, both size and type, after treatment;  \nZ3: the eelworm population, both size and type, at the end of the season;  \nZ0: represents last year's eelworm population (because it is an unknown quantity, it is represented by a hollow circle);  \nB , the population of birds and other predators (also unknown) .  \n~~ ~~Motivation  \nFirst step: construct a causal diagram  \n Links in the diagram are of two kinds: those that connect unmeasured quantities are designated by dashed arrows, those connecting measured quantities by solid arrows.  \n The missing arrow between Z1 and Y signifies the investigator's understanding that pre-treatment eelworms cannot affect oat plants directly; their entire influence on oat yields is mediated by  \npost-treatment conditions, namely Z2 and Z3.  \nNote  \nThe purpose of the paper is not to validate or repudiate such  \ndomain-specific assumptions but, rather, to test whether a given set","cbCaivs268ot6CBt","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivs268ot6CBt","pdf",626085,45,"English","# Motivation\n## Summary: Causal diagrams for empirical research\n## Classical example due to Cochran\n### The experiment\n### Classical case of counfounding bias\n## First step: construct a causal diagram\n### Links and missing arrows\n### Note: purpose of the paper\n## Conclusions based on the proposed method\n## Graphical models and manipulative account of causation\n### Graphs and conditional independence","[{\"question\":\"What do causal diagrams aim to do in empirical research?\",\"answer\":\"They use graphical models as a mathematical language to combine statistical and subject-matter information for causal inference from data.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the framework identify causal effects from nonexperimental data?\",\"answer\":\"It develops a nonparametric approach where causal diagrams are queried to determine whether the available assumptions are sufficient to identify causal effects.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is constructing a causal diagram the first step?\",\"answer\":\"It organizes variables before and after treatment, accounts for unknown quantities with appropriate diagram notation, and shows how influences on outcomes are mediated through other variables.\"}]","Causal diagrams for empirical research - Motivation | PDF",113]