{"id":63,"date":"2009-09-11T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-09-11T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T11:00:24","slug":"recent-activities-in-causality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/11\/recent-activities-in-causality\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Activities in Causality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Judea Pearl writes:<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Dear colleagues in causality research,<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>I am pleased to announce that the 2nd Edition of Causality is out now (I saw a real copy), and should hit your bookstore any day. Thanks for waiting patiently, and I apologize for not having books to sign at the JSM meeting in DC.<\/li>\n<li>You may be pleased to know that, after a long and heated discussion on Andrew Gelman&#8217;s website, a provisional resolution (truce?) has been declared on the question: Is there such a thing as overadjustment? <a href=\"http:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/?p=70\">Click for details&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A new survey paper, gently summarizing everything I know about causation (in 40 pages) is now <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r350.pdf\">posted<\/a>. Comments are welcome.<\/li>\n<li>A new paper answering the question: &#8220;When are two measurements equally valuable for effect estimation?&#8221; has been <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r343-short.pdf\">posted<\/a>. Confession: It is really a neat result.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Wishing you a fruitful new school year and may clarity reign in causality land.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>=======Judea Pearl<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judea Pearl writes: Dear colleagues in causality research, I am pleased to announce that the 2nd Edition of Causality is out now (I saw a real copy), and should hit your bookstore any day. Thanks for waiting patiently, and I apologize for not having books to sign at the JSM meeting in DC. You may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-book-j-pearl","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}