[R] Scatterplot and Causality

[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 <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> Inline.
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Lorenzo Isella
> <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:27:05 +0200, Robert Baer <rbaer at atsu.edu> 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 studied the change in a response variable, and then, you came
>>> back with the roles  reversed.  I don't think R or indeed any statistical
>>> package can help you here.
>>>
>>
>> I certainly agree, but here we are not planning an experiment: we have some
>> data sets that were collected having something totally different in mind and
>> we wonder if we can extract any info about causality from them.
>
> As others have said:
>
> (Short answer) No.
>
> (Long Answer) Don't be ridiculous.
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>
> -- Bert
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>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Lorenzo
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