Observations, experiments and inference

We take a change in tack this week.

Go over to the Berkeley textbook, and read the chapter on Causality and Experiments: https://www.inferentialthinking.com/chapters/02/causality-and-experiments

Read the whole chapter, all the way through to the Endnote.

It tells the horrible and fascinating history of one of the great medical breakthroughs - the discovery of the cause of cholera. This is the basis for a discussion of how to use data to look at causes, and how you can be deceived if you have the wrong data.

When you have read the chapter, download this this notebook, and fill in the answers, in the notebook text cells.