Judea Pearl Reports 1,250 Monthly Citations for Causal Inference Research

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How do you measure the impact of a new science? Some count the number press-releases companies launch to advertise their software. Others count the number of interviews spokesmen of these companies give to news-hungry journalists. I prefer to tally the number of citations that a given science inspires. July 1st is a good time to tally citations to causal inference papers, where I am happy to report a harvest of about 1,250 citations per month, and growing. see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bAipNH8AAAAJ&hl=en . @KirkDBorne @vardi @Forbes @ConjectureInst

Kirk Borne@KirkDBorne

A First Course in Causal Inference: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18793 [490-page PDF download] + + Also see the book "Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer" at https://amzn.to/3Mrm2wO by @yudapearl

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Judea Pearl@yudapearl

I should add that Primer is downloadable free: see https://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/PRIMER/

Kirk Borne@KirkDBorne

A First Course in Causal Inference: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18793 [490-page PDF download] + + Also see the book "Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer" at https://amzn.to/3Mrm2wO by @yudapearl

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Nick Maley@NickMaley391884

@yudapearl Just wondering: is Madelyn Glymour any relation to Clark Glymour? Can't just be coincidence.

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Wickie@wickie369

@yudapearl @ConjectureInst Around 80% of my Computational Causal modeling is based on Judea Pearl and Elias Bareinboim. Thanks a ton for that!!

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Bruce Grey Tedesco@BruceTedesco

@yudapearl The book is spot-on as an intro or a nice refresher.

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Jing Liang@powerpig

@yudapearl Measurements are always downstream of causality and can be useful to infer causality but never prove it.

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7rtp@fredyfredo123

On the loss of critical information in classical numerical evaluation

The classical gesture does not consist in exhibiting the witness, but in preserving the formal possibility of projecting it. The witness disappears as a given object. It returns in Gödel in the form of a functional, that is, as the computational effect of a proof.

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Judea Pearl@yudapearl

@NickMaley391884 Madelyn is Clark's daughter.

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