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The Hard Problem of Theory Choice: A Case Study on Causal Inference and Its Faithfulness Assumption.

The problem of theory choice and model selection is hard but still important when useful truths are underdetermined, perhaps not by all kinds of data but by the kinds of data we can have access to ethically or practicably—even if we have an infinity of such data. This article addresses a crucial ins...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 86; no. 5; pp. 967 - 981
Main Author: Lin, Hanti
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2019
Subjects:
Decision theory
Causal models
Case studies
Data science
Hypothesis
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