• Causal decision theory (CDT) is a school of thought within decision theory which states that, when a rational agent is confronted with a set of possible...
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    Decision theory or the theory of rational choice is a branch of probability, economics, and analytic philosophy that uses expected utility and probability...
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  • contrasts with causal decision theory (CDT), which prescribes taking the action that will causally produce the best outcome. While these two theories agree in...
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  • Causal theory may refer to: Causal decision theory of evaluating the expected utility of an action Causal sets theory, an approach to quantum physics...
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    determinism appears to originate with the Stoics, as part of their theory of universal causal determinism. The resulting philosophical debates, which involved...
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  • behavior occurs and absent when it does not. Thus, the theory assumes that people make causal attributions in a rational, logical fashion, and that they...
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  • Newcomb's paradox (category Decision-making paradoxes)
    its decision, making it impossible for the player's decision to affect the predictor's decision. Causal decision theory Evidential decision theory Robert...
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  • Causality (redirect from Causal)
    observe with negligible intervention. The theory of "causal calculus" (also known as do-calculus, Judea Pearl's Causal Calculus, Calculus of Actions) permits...
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  • practical use for causal AI is for organisations to explain decision-making and the causes for a decision. Systems based on causal AI, by identifying...
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  • of the agent's intention. The dominant theory of the relation between the intention and the behavior is causalism: driving the car is an action because...
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  • approaches to define traits: as internal causal properties or as purely descriptive summaries. The internal causal definition states that traits influence...
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  • isotopes Causal dynamical triangulation, an approach to quantum gravity Causal decision theory, a school of thought within decision theory Central Daylight...
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  • In control theory, a causal system (also known as a physical or nonanticipative system) is a system where the output depends on past and current inputs...
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  • Emotional choice theory (also referred to as the "logic of affect") is a social scientific action model to explain human decision-making. Its foundation...
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    makes us have control over things is the fact that we are causally undetermined in our decision and thus can freely decide between doing/choosing or not...
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  • directed acyclic graph (DAG). While it is one of several forms of causal notation, causal networks are special cases of Bayesian networks. Bayesian networks...
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  • Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main...
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  • Causal reasoning is the process of identifying causality: the relationship between a cause and its effect. The study of causality extends from ancient...
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  • monitoring and other methods to observe causal relationships and generate better predictions. Society portal Action theory (sociology) Archaeology of religion...
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  • refinement of image theory, which was developed as an alternative to rational choice theory. The essence of image theory is that decisions are shaped by long-term...
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    The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately...
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    Evidence, Decision and Causality (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which defends evidential decision theory and critiques causal decision theory. Ahmed...
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  • intended according to the normative theory; however, it turns out that the causal theory is incorrect; or (2) the causal theory is correct; however, the program...
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  • Sunk cost (category Decision theory)
    house, into their future decisions regarding those properties. According to classical economics and standard microeconomic theory, only prospective (future)...
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    type of graph with a similar causal structure is an influence diagram, the vertices of which represent either decisions to be made or unknown information...
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    applications include optimizing decision trees for better performance, solving sudoku puzzles, hyperparameter optimization, and causal inference. In a genetic...
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  • Making Decisions? Theory and Evidence. CRC Press. pp. 53–65. ISBN 978-1-4398-4646-9. Choi, I., Nisbett, R. E., & Norenzayan, A. (2003). "Causal attribution...
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  • a decision. Coding theory is one of the most important and direct applications of information theory. It can be subdivided into source coding theory and...
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  • International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective. It seeks to explain behaviors and outcomes...
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  • In 'theory-testing process tracing,' the goal is to test existing theories and the causal mechanisms assumed therein. On the contrary, 'theory-building...
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