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Epidemiology matters a new introduction to methodological foundations Chapter 10 Seven steps Define the population of interest Conceptualize and create measures of exposures and health indicators. Bankers . do to mitigate risk and potential losses…. Balanced performance (e.g. growth, profitability, and quality) is out-of-balance.. Excessive risk at the time of underwriting;. Poor evaluation of repayment sources;. Jean-Philippe Pellet. Andre . Ellisseeff. Presented by Na Dai. Motivation. Why structure . l. earning?. What are Markov blankets?. Relationship between feature selection and Markov blankets?. Previous work. recap. Kripke’s Picture. “Someone. , let’s say, a baby, is born; his parents call him by a certain . name. They . talk about him to their friends, . other . people meet him. . Through various sorts . Ognyan. Oreshkov. , . Fabio . Costa. , . ČaslavBrukner. Bhubaneswar. arXiv:1105.4464. 20 December2011. Conference on Quantum Information. X. T. D. E. A. B. C. A. B. C. D. E. Measurements in space-time. Reversible Debugging. Ivan . Lanese. Focus research group. Computer Science . and Engineering Department. Univers. ity . of Bologna/INRIA. Bologna, Italy. Joint work with Elena Giachino (FOCUS) and Claudio Antares Mezzina (FBK Trento). : A Ground-Breaking use of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Bob Stoddard SEMA. Mike Konrad. SEMA. Copyright 2015 Carnegie Mellon University. This . material is based upon work funded and supported by the Department of Defense under Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0003 with Carnegie Mellon University for the operation of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center.. Susan Athey, Stanford GSB. Based on joint work with Guido Imbens, Stefan Wager. References outside CS literature. Imbens and Rubin Causal Inference book (2015): synthesis of literature prior to big data/ML. PcOR. : . controversies in the field. Heejung Bang, PhD. UC-Davis. 1. Why PCOR?. Me as . a . negative/null/lazy researcher-patient. . & co-I of a PCORI trial, my personal and honest feelings about . Assoc. . Prof. Dr. Şehnaz . Şahinkarakaş. Introduction to Causal-Comparative Research. A . causal-comparative. . study. is. a . study in which the researcher attempts to determine the cause, or reason, for pre-existing differences in groups of . System.  .  . Nader . Amir and . Shaan. . McGhie. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA US..  . Disclosure : Dr. . Amir was formerly a part owner of Cognitive Retraining Technologies, . LLC . Causes are . difference-makers. .. Effect need not be . universal/deterministic. .. N. ot . everyone who is bitten by a cobra . dies. .. N. ot . everyone who dies is bitten by a . cobra. .. B. ut . cobra bites still cause . . Richard Scheines. Philosophy, Machine Learning, . Human-Computer Interaction . Carnegie Mellon University. 2. Goals. Basic Familiarity with Causal Model Search: . What it is. What it can and cannot do. Tony Cox. May 5, 2016. 1. Download free CAT software from: . http://cox-associates.com/CAT.htm. . Outline. Why CAT? Challenges for causal analytics. Ambiguous C-R associations: theory & practice. Causal arguments are inductive arguments in which the conclusion is a claim that one thing causes another.. For example:. Clogged arteries cause heart attacks. A rough surface produces friction. Exercise during heat causes sweating.