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

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Chains, forks, and colliders or…immoralities

On a sunny morning of June 1, 2020, Mr. Huang was driving his gleaming white Tesla on one of Taiwan’s main highways. The day was clear, and the trip was going smoothly. Mr. Huang engaged the autopilot and set the speed to 110 km/h. While approaching the road’s 268-kilometer mark, he was completely unaware that only 300 meters ahead, something unexpected was awaiting him. Nine minutes earlier, another driver, Mr. Yeh, had lost control of his vehicle. His white truck was now overturned, almost fully blocking two lanes of the highway right at the 268.3-kilometer mark.

Around 11 seconds later, to Mr. Huang’s dismay, his Tesla crashed into the overturned truck’s rooftop. Fortunately, the driver, Mr. Huang, survived the crash and came out of the accident without any serious injuries (Everington, 2020).