On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:13 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > A few years ago I researched homicide rates and gun ownership rates by > country and was surprised to find a weak but negative correlation. But that > doesn't tell us why. Does arming everyone deter crime, or does crime result > in stricter gun laws? The data doesn't say. You can use either data point > to predict the other and get the same compression. > For this kind of extremely limited causal analysis between just two variables, you might make progress with BMLiNGAM <https://taku-y.github.io/bmlingam/>, which is a package I used to create such paired causal inferences as a first step toward doing trivial path analysis on a bunch of data. But, really, the proper approach is to go multivariate out of the gate. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T772759d8ceb4b92c-M77531075734d97e1b6ff2d5d Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
