You're reading from Causal Inference and Discovery in Python Unlock the secrets of modern causal machine learning with DoWhy, EconML, PyTorch and more

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804612989

Length 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

PyTorch

Concepts

Data Science

Author (1):

Aleksander Molak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Causality – an Introduction

2. Chapter 1: Causality – Hey, We Have Machine Learning, So Why Even Bother? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Judea Pearl and the Ladder of Causation

4. Chapter 3: Regression, Observations, and Interventions

5. Chapter 4: Graphical Models

6. Chapter 5: Forks, Chains, and Immoralities

7. Part 2: Causal Inference

8. Chapter 6: Nodes, Edges, and Statistical (In)dependence

9. Chapter 7: The Four-Step Process of Causal Inference

10. Chapter 8: Causal Models – Assumptions and Challenges

11. Chapter 9: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – from Matching to Meta-Learners

12. Chapter 10: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Advanced Estimators, Experiments, Evaluations, and More

13. Chapter 11: Causal Inference and Machine Learning – Deep Learning, NLP, and Beyond

14. Part 3: Causal Discovery

15. Chapter 12: Can I Have a Causal Graph, Please?

16. Chapter 13: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – from Assumptions to Applications

17. Chapter 14: Causal Discovery and Machine Learning – Advanced Deep Learning and Beyond

18. Chapter 15: Epilogue

19. Index

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Extra – is there causality beyond DAGs?

In this extra section, we’ll give a brief overview of some non-DAG-based approaches to causality. This is definitely an incomplete and somehow subjective guide.

Dynamical systems

The scenario with two interacting partners that we discussed in the previous section describes a dynamical system. This particular example is inspired by the research by an American ex-rabbi turned psychologist called John Gottman, who studies human romantic relationships from a dynamical systems point of view (for an overview: Gottman & Notarius, 2000; Gottman et al., 1999).

Dynamical systems are often described using differential equations and cannot be solved analytically (for a toy example of differential equations applied to romantic relationships, check Strogatz, 1988).

Dynamical systems have been extensively studied in physics (Strogatz, 2018), biology (Cosentino & Bates, 2011), and psychology (Nowak & Vallacher, 1998), among...