title: Causation, Prediction, and Search, Second Edition (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
author:  Peter Spirtes 
description: Clark Glymour is Alumni University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Research Scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He is the author of <i>The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology</i> (MIT Press), <i>Galileo in Pittsburgh</i>, and other books.
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  Christian P. Robert
  
  The Bayesian Choice
  
  From Decision-Theoretic Foundations
  
  to Computational Implementation
  
  Second Edition
  
  Christian P. Robert
  
  CEREMADE
  
  Universite Paris Dauphine
  
  Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny
  
  75775 Paris cedex 16
  
  France
  
  xian@ceremade.dauphine.fr
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2007926596
  
  ISBN 978-0-387-71598-8
  
  e-ISBN 978-0-387-71599-5
  
  Printed on acid-free paper.
  
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