Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Belmont, John W
: Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality Fortune nomination. cheers, Rolf On 23/04/13 08:31, Bert Gunter wrote: (In response to a question about inferring causality from observational data.) > As others have said: > > (Short answer) No. > > (Long Answer) Don&

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Rolf Turner
Fortune nomination. cheers, Rolf On 23/04/13 08:31, Bert Gunter wrote: (In response to a question about inferring causality from observational data.) As others have said: (Short answer) No. (Long Answer) Don't be ridiculous. _

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Joerg Luedicke
Nevertheless, some people try: http://www.kaggle.com/c/cause-effect-pairs Joerg On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Bert Gunter wrote: > Inline. > > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lorenzo Isella > wrote: >> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:27:05 +0200, Robert Baer wrote: >> >> >>> It strikes me that

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Bert Gunter
Inline. On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:27:05 +0200, Robert Baer wrote: > > >> It strikes me that this is not a particularly productive approach to >> causality, particularly in an observational setting. You would need to >> design an experiment

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Lorenzo Isella
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:27:05 +0200, Robert Baer wrote: It strikes me that this is not a particularly productive approach to causality, particularly in an observational setting. You would need to design an experiment where you had a known manipulation of an explanatory variable and studie

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Robert Baer
On 4/22/2013 9:48 AM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: Dear All, I hope this is not too off topic. I am given a set of scatteplots (nothing too fancy; think about a normal x-y 2D plot). I do not deal with two time series (indeed I have no info about time). If I call A=(A1,A2,...) and B=(B1, B2, ...) the 2 v

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: > Dear All, > I hope this is not too off topic. > I am given a set of scatteplots (nothing too fancy; think about a > normal x-y 2D plot). > I do not deal with two time series (indeed I have no info about time). > If I call A=(A1,A2,...) and B

Re: [R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/04/2013 10:48 AM, Lorenzo Isella wrote: Dear All, I hope this is not too off topic. I am given a set of scatteplots (nothing too fancy; think about a normal x-y 2D plot). I do not deal with two time series (indeed I have no info about time). If I call A=(A1,A2,...) and B=(B1, B2, ...) the 2

[R] Scatterplot and Causality

2013-04-22 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, I hope this is not too off topic. I am given a set of scatteplots (nothing too fancy; think about a normal x-y 2D plot). I do not deal with two time series (indeed I have no info about time). If I call A=(A1,A2,...) and B=(B1, B2, ...) the 2 variables (two vectors of numbers most of the c