TY - BOOK AU - Pearl, Judea AU - Glymour, Madelyn AU - Jewell, Nicholas P. TI - Causal inference in statistics: A primer SN - 9781119186847 PY - 2016/// CY - United Kingdom PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. N2 - Causality is central to the understanding and use of data. Without an understanding of cause–effect relationships, we cannot use data to answer questions as basic as "Does this treatment harm or help patients?" But though hundreds of introductory texts are available on statistical methods of data analysis, until now, no beginner-level book has been written about the exploding arsenal of methods that can tease causal information from data ER -