That tutorial is mostly a user's manual for the software. A better explanation is on pp. 19 and following in
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242448131_Causation_Prediction_and_Search Sorry, Glen, it's a book but you only need a few pages to see how correlation (in the form of conditional independence) is causation. Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:59 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a TETRAD tutorial. See the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. > > > > https://rawgit.com/cmu-phil/tetrad/development/tetrad-gui/src/main/resources/resources/javahelp/manual/tetrad_tutorial.html > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:55 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Jon. I gave a Friam Colloquium at SFI on the topic back in the >> day. Unless you have background knowledge, which you usually do, you can't >> decide which of two correlated variables causes the other. But if you have >> a set of variables as you usually do in social science and medicine you can >> use the Causal Markov Condition and the concept of Faithfulness to infer an >> equivalence class of causal digraphs which will frequently share a set of >> causal edges. >> >> I will look for a good tutorial on the subject and mail a link to Friam. >> >> --- >> Frank C. Wimberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> 505 670-9918 >> Santa Fe, NM >> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:34 AM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Frank, >>> >>> Would you say more about the work? What sort of framework is used to >>> speak >>> about the relation between correlation and causation? >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >>> >>> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >>> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >>> >>
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