Whether we can get causal inferences out of correlation and equations has been a dispute between two camps:
For causation: Clark Glymour (Philosopher), Pearl (Computer scientist), James Woodward (Philosopher) Against: Nancy Cartwright (Economist and philosopher), David Freedman (Mathematician) One comment fromm this list is about that causal inferences cannot be drawn from non-experimental design. Clark Glymour asserts that using Causal Markov condition and faithfulness assumption, we can make causal interpretation to non-experimental data. **************************************************************************** Chong-ho (Alex) Yu, Ph.D., MCSE, CNE, CCNA Psychometrician and Data Analyst Assessment, Research and Evaulation Cisco Systems, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/ **************************************************************************** ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
