This program allows the instructor to draw a hidden causal Bayes net, aka Nature, and students perform experiments on a budget to determine the underlying causal structure:
“In this version of the lab, the Instructor may set a “cost” for collecting data points, and limit the total resources students may spend on collecting data. The lab will keep track of a student’s remaining resources, and inform the student of how much each experiment will cost. In addition, the Instructor can set essay questions for the students to answer, and give feedback to the students. ”
If you want to see what the CMU students are seeing, just download it and check it out; it doesn’t even require installation. Exercises are here.
All is not lost: Carnegie Melon’s philosophy department is teaching its students causality using Pearl :)
http://www.phil.cmu.edu/projects/causality-lab/
This program allows the instructor to draw a hidden causal Bayes net, aka Nature, and students perform experiments on a budget to determine the underlying causal structure:
“In this version of the lab, the Instructor may set a “cost” for collecting data points, and limit the total resources students may spend on collecting data. The lab will keep track of a student’s remaining resources, and inform the student of how much each experiment will cost. In addition, the Instructor can set essay questions for the students to answer, and give feedback to the students. ”
If you want to see what the CMU students are seeing, just download it and check it out; it doesn’t even require installation. Exercises are here.