Title
Varieties of Causal Intervention
Abstract
The use of Bayesian networks for modeling causal systems has achieved widespread recognition with Judea Pearl's Causality (2000). There, Pearl developed a "do-calculus" for reasoning about the effects of deterministic causal interventions on a system. Here we discuss some of the different kinds of intervention that arise when indeterminstic interventions are allowed, generalizing Pearl's account. We also point out the danger of the naive use of Bayesian networks for causal reasoning, which can lead to the mis-estimation of causal effects. We illustrate these ideas with a graphical user interface we have developed for causal modeling.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/978-3-540-28633-2_35
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
bayesian network,causal reasoning,causal models,graphic user interface
Causal reasoning,Causality,Computer science,Generalization,Bayesian network,Artificial intelligence,Deterministic system,Causal system,User interface,Machine learning,Causal model
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
3157
0302-9743
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.68
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin B. Korb140052.03
Lucas R. Hope2475.09
Ann E. Nicholson369288.01
Karl Axnick4202.38