"G. Anthony Reina" wrote:
> Is there a test that variable X causes variable Y?
No, not in the abstract general way you pose the question
> I was under the impression that the best statistics could do was
> correlation not causation. In order to prove causation, one would have
> to know the sp
Try "Causality: Models, reasoning, and inference" by Judea Pearl. As I
understand it, pearl's approach combines the structural equation modeling
and Bayesian Inference network. And Pearl favors over-identified models.
When there are many ways to fit the data and the model but you found a
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