Correlation Differs from Causation

Big Data: From correlation to causation

Background Big data analytics can contribute to fruitful future scientific inquiries as they allow researchers to investigate new underexplored scientific questions that could not be studied before and to dive deeper into existing scientific questions in order to elicit better answers. In this short paper, I outline the opportunities that arise from leveraging existing econometric methods in co...

Aneuploidy and cancer: from correlation to causation.

Conventional genetic theories have failed to explain why cancer (1) is not found in newborns and thus not heritable; (2) develops only years to decades after 'initiation' by carcinogens; (3) is caused by non-mutagenic carcinogens; (4) is chromosomally and phenotypically 'unstable'; (5) carries cancer-specific aneuploidies; (6) evolves polygenic phenotypes; (7) nonselective phenotypes such as mu...

Correlation and Causation

Correlation and Causation

Correlation and Causation