Causal Analytics for Applied Risk Analysis (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
暫譯: 應用風險分析的因果分析(國際運籌研究與管理科學系列)

Louis Anthony Cox Jr., Douglas A. Popken, Richard X. Sun

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2018-07-05
  • 售價: $12,770
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$12,132
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 588
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 3319782401
  • ISBN-13: 9783319782409
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Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes. This book presents and illustrates models, algorithms, principles, and software for deriving causal models from data and for using them to optimize decisions with uncertain outcomes. It discusses how to describe and summarize situations; detect changes; evaluate effects of policies or interventions; learn what works best under different conditions; predict values of as-yet unobserved quantities from available data; and identify the most likely explanations for observed outcomes, including surprises and anomalies. The book resents practical techniques for causal modeling and analytics that practitioners can apply to improve understanding of how choices affect probabilities of consequences and, based on this understanding, to recommend choices that are more likely to accomplish their intended objectives.
The book begins with a survey of modern analytics methods, focusing mainly on techniques useful for decision, risk, and policy analysis. Chapter 2 introduces free in-browser software, including the Causal Analytics Toolkit (CAT) software, to enable readers to perform the analyses described and to apply modern analytics methods easily to their own data sets. Chapters 3 through 11 show how to apply causal analytics and risk analytics to practical risk analysis challenges, mainly related to public and occupational health risks from pathogens in food or from pollutants in air. Chapters 12 through 15 turn to broader questions of how to improve risk management decision-making by individuals, groups, organizations, institutions, and multi-generation societies with different cultures and norms for cooperation. These chapters examine organizational learning, community resilience, societal risk management, and intergenerational collaboration and justice in managing risks.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

因果分析方法可以徹底改變數據的使用方式,以便做出有效的決策,因為它揭示了不同選擇如何影響各種結果的概率。本書介紹並說明了從數據中推導因果模型的模型、算法、原則和軟體,以及如何利用這些模型來優化具有不確定結果的決策。它討論了如何描述和總結情況;檢測變化;評估政策或干預的效果;了解在不同條件下什麼是最佳的;從可用數據中預測尚未觀察到的量的值;以及識別觀察到的結果(包括驚訝和異常)的最可能解釋。本書提供了因果建模和分析的實用技術,實務工作者可以應用這些技術來改善對選擇如何影響後果概率的理解,並根據這種理解推薦更有可能實現其預期目標的選擇。

本書首先對現代分析方法進行調查,主要集中在對決策、風險和政策分析有用的技術上。第二章介紹了免費的瀏覽器內軟體,包括因果分析工具包(Causal Analytics Toolkit, CAT)軟體,以便讀者能夠執行所描述的分析,並輕鬆地將現代分析方法應用於自己的數據集。第三至第十一章展示了如何將因果分析和風險分析應用於實際的風險分析挑戰,主要與食品中的病原體或空氣中的污染物相關的公共和職業健康風險有關。第十二至第十五章則轉向更廣泛的問題,即如何改善個人、團體、組織、機構以及具有不同文化和合作規範的多代社會的風險管理決策。這些章節探討了組織學習、社區韌性、社會風險管理以及在風險管理中代際合作與正義的問題。