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Understanding causality / by Piaget, Jean,1896-1980.(CARDINAL)137606; García, Rolando V.(Rolando Víctor),1919-2012.(CARDINAL)842907;
Subjects: Causation.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The book of why : the new science of cause and effect / by Pearl, Judea,author.(CARDINAL)731589; Mackenzie, Dana,author.(CARDINAL)542915;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Mind over data -- The ladder of causation -- From buccaneers to guinea pigs: the genesis of causal inference -- From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes -- Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable -- The smoke-filled debate: clearing the air -- Paradoxes galore! -- Beyond adjustment: the conquest of Mt. Intervention -- Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been -- Mediation: the search for a mechanism -- Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions."Everyone has heard the claim, "Correlation does not imply causation." What might sound like a reasonable dictum metastasized in the twentieth century into one of science's biggest obstacles, as a legion of researchers became unwilling to make the claim that one thing could cause another. Even two decades ago, asking a statistician a question like "Was it the aspirin that stopped my headache?" would have been like asking if he believed in voodoo, or at best a topic for conversation at a cocktail party rather than a legitimate target of scientific inquiry. Scientists were allowed to posit only that the probability that one thing was associated with another. This all changed with Judea Pearl, whose work on causality was not just a victory for common sense, but a revolution in the study of the world"--
Subjects: Causation.; Inference.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Causal factors analysis : an approach for organizational learning / by United States.National Nuclear Security Administration.(CARDINAL)291774; Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Pantex.(CARDINAL)291773;
The document was produced by B&W Pantex ... managing and operating contractor for the U.S. Dept. of Energy under contract
Subjects: Causation.; Organizational learning.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Evidence of purpose : scientists discover the creator / by Templeton, John,1912-2008.(CARDINAL)512956;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-207).
Subjects: Causation.; Religion and science.; Teleology.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Critique of pure reason. / by Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804.(CARDINAL)139117;
Subjects: Causation.; Knowledge, Theory of.; Reason.;
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Critique of pure reason / by Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804.(CARDINAL)139117; Meiklejohn, J. M. D.(John Miller Dow),1836-1902.(CARDINAL)192601;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-546).
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Causation.; Reason.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Critique of pure reason / by Kant, Immanuel,1724-1804,author.(CARDINAL)139117; Weigelt, Marcus,1966-(CARDINAL)556121; Müller, F. Max(Friedrich Max),1823-1900.(CARDINAL)151957;
Includes bibliographical references (page lxx-lxxvi) and index.1500L
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of.; Causation.; Reason.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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The way of the willow branch / by Bernhard, Emery.(CARDINAL)369685; Bernhard, Durga,illustrator.(CARDINAL)367501; Bernhard, Durga.(CARDINAL)367501;
An old branch falls from a willow tree and has many adventures before eventually becoming part of a young boy's mobile.
Subjects: Fiction.; Causation; Trees;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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A giraffe and a half / by Silverstein, Shel,author.(CARDINAL)140680;
Rhymed text tells a hypothetical story about a Giraffe, and the many things that could happen to this giraffe ... IF. The poems starts with "If you had a giraffe ..." and continues by building along these lines with all sorts of different "ifs" and their conclusions.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Picture books.; Causation; Giraffe;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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My pictures after the storm / by Veillé, Éric,1976-author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)557972; Hahn, Daniel,translator.(CARDINAL)688447;
Offers humorous drawings comparing things before and after storms, meetings with elephants, and trips to the hairdresser.NP
Subjects: Humor.; Causation; Wit and humor, Juvenile.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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