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The relationship between cause and effect.

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logic behind additive Noise Models?

I am new to statistics, reading the elements of causal inference: On section 4.2.1 Additive Noise Models, appears: Left regress Y on X. Right regress X on Y The fitted functions are shown in the …
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real data where x causes y and both variables also share correlated unobserved causes

Is there an example in 'causality' discussing a case where 2 variables: x causes y; and at the same time there is correlation between their unobserved causes? … My question is if this is discussed in causality and/or if there is real (non-syntetic) data behaving like this. …
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which causal diagram is correct?

In causality, there is the ‘kidney stone’ study which is quite famous, which poses the next causal diagram: But, now in the talk from the Royal stats societe https://youtu.be/TFWgC5J6iDw, this causal …
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is it always "no causation without manipulation"?

I am new to statistics and causality. To my knowledge, to talk about causality, one must have some sort of intervention. I knew it as "no causation without manipulation". … Now I am curious: I see many information saying that causality can be checked just by using regression, ie this video https://www.youtube.com/watch? …
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Why use independence test and not normality test for structure identification?

In the book 'Elements of causal inference', the code below is used an example for structure identification. library(dHSIC) library(mgcv) X <- rnorm(200) Y <- X^3 + rnorm(200) modelforw <- gam(Y ~ s( …
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If 2 variables are dependent, then there always exists a 3rd variable that causally influenc...

In the book elements of causal inference (Peters et al). They mention this principle: Principle 1.1 (Reichenbach’s common cause principle) If two random variables X and Y are statistically depen …
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correlation implies dependency?

In this talk from prof Bernhard https://youtu.be/4qc28RA7HLQ?t=88 he only sees/shows linear correlation, and he assumes there is ‘dependency’? Correct me if wrong but correlation does not imply ‘dep …
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