From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causation, and Statistical Inference
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Solution: What is causing what?
From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Prediction, Causation, and Statistical Inference
Solution: What is causing what?
(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Okay, let's first address the two explicit tasks in the challenge. What's correlated with that? And what might be causing what? So the first thing I would notice if I was looking at this is these sub scales. We have verbal and math, PSAT. Don't forget that we have the data description here with what these variables mean. So we've got the math and verbal sub scales of the Preliminary SAT. And we also have this percent honors over here but we have various components of it: English, math, science and social studies. So of course, I'm quite familiar with this dataset but if I was looking at it for the first time, I think that's one of the first things that I would notice. Another thing that I would notice is that this sensing intuition variable, I have the letter version and the binary kind of dummy-coded version if you're familiar with how that term is used in regression and I've got sex…
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