Can you write a program to determine the causal order?

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-13

Summary:

Mike Zyphur writes: Kaggle.com has launched a competition to determine what’s an effect and what’s a cause. They’ve got correlated variables, they’re deprived of context, and you’re asked to determine the causal order. $5,000 prizes. I followed the link and the example they gave didn’t make much sense to me (the two variables were temperature [...]

Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/13/18536/

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causal inference

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

04/13/2013, 10:42

Date published:

04/13/2013, 09:12