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Machine Learning for Finance
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Machine Learning for Finance

by James Le, Jannes Klaas
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
456 pages
11h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Causal learning

This book is by and large a book about statistical learning. Given data X and targets Y, we aim to estimate Causal learning, the distribution of target values given certain data points. Statistical learning allows us to create a number of great models with useful applications, but it doesn't allow us to claim that X being x caused Y to be y.

This statement is critical if we intend to manipulate X. For instance, if we want to know whether giving insurance to someone leads to them behaving recklessly, we are not going to be satisfied with the statistical relationship that people with insurance behave more reckless than those without. For instance, ...

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