Causal Models and Intelligent Data Management [Hardcover]

The need to electronically store, manipulate and analyze large-scale, high-dimensional data sets requires new computational methods. This book presents new intelligent data management methods and tools, including new results from the field of inference. Leading experts also map out future directions of intelligent data analysis. This book will be a valuable reference for researchers exploring the interdisciplinary area between statistics and computer science as well as for professionals applying advanced data analysis methods in industry.Data analysis and inference have traditionally been research areas of statistics. However, the need to electronically store, manipulate and analyze large-scale, high-dimensional data sets requires new methods and tools, new types of databases, new efficient algorithms, new data structures, etc. - in effect new computational methods.
This monograph presents new intelligent data management methods and tools, such as the support vector machine, and new results from the field of inference, in particular of causal modeling. In 11 well-structured chapters, leading experts map out the major tendencies and future directions of intelligent data analysis. The book will become a valuable source of reference for researchers exploring the interdisciplinary area between statistics and computer science as well as for professionals applying advanced data analysis methods in industry and commerce. Students and lecturers will find the book useful as an introduction to the area.I. Causal Models.- 1. Statistics, Causality, and Graphs.- 1.1 A Century of Denial.- 1.2 Researchers in Search of a Language.- 1.3 Graphs as a Mathematical Language.- 1.4 The Challenge.- References.- 2. Causal Conjecture.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Variables in a Probability Tree.- 2.3 Causal Uncorrelatedness.- 2.4 Three Positive Causal Relations.- 2.5 Linear Sign.- 2.6 Causal Uncorrelatedness Again.- 2.7 Scored Sign.- 2.8 Tracking.- References.- 3. Who Needs Counterfactual“8