Abstract
Causal relations are regularities in the way Nature’s predictions change. Since we usually do not stand in Nature’s shoes, we usually do not observe these dynamic regularities directly. But we sometimes observe statistical regularities that are most easily explained by hypothesizing such dynamic regularities. In this chapter, I illustrate this process of causal conjecture with a few simple examples.
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Shafer, G. (1999). Causal Conjecture. In: Gammerman, A. (eds) Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58648-4_2
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