Theory-based causal induction.
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Theory-based causal induction.
Inducing causal relationships from observations is a classic problem in scientific inference, statistics, and machine learning. It is also a central part of human learning, and a task that people perform remarkably well given its notorious difficulties. People can learn causal structure in various settings, from diverse forms of data: observations of the co-occurrence frequencies between causes...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Review
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1939-1471,0033-295X
DOI: 10.1037/a0017201