Causality, Probability, and Time

1. Introduction 2. A brief history of causality 3. Probability, logic and probabilistic temporal logic 4. Defining causality 5. Inferring causality 6. Token causality 7. Case studies 8. Conclusion Appendix A. A little bit of statistics Appendix B. Proofs.

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