{"id":1035,"date":"2012-01-23T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2012-01-23T23:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:00:31","slug":"if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does\/","title":{"rendered":"If correlation doesn&#8217;t imply causation, then what does?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question I address (very partially) in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelnielsen.org\/ddi\/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does\/\">new post<\/a> on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelnielsen.org\/ddi\/\">data-driven intelligence blog<\/a>.  The post reviews some of the recent work on causal inference done by people such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judea_Pearl\">Judea Pearl<\/a>.  In particular the post describes the elements of a causal calculus developed by Pearl, and explains how the calculus can be applied to infer causation, even when a randomized, controlled experiment is not possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the question I address (very partially) in a new post on my data-driven intelligence blog. The post reviews some of the recent work on causal inference done by people such as Judea Pearl. In particular the post describes the elements of a causal calculus developed by Pearl, and explains how the calculus can be&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/if-correlation-doesnt-imply-causation-then-what-does\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If correlation doesn&#8217;t imply causation, then what does?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}