Looking for books about causal discovery

Question

I am new in causal discovery. I am reading papers and other stuff about causal discovery, but couldn't get any good books or good information. Can anyone recommend the best book for causal discovery?

Answer 1

Additionally, you might want to check:

• Peters, Janzing and Scholkopf, Elements of Causal Inference.

• Spirtes, Glymour and Scheines, Causation, Prediction, and Search

Answer 2

As far as I know, the two classics are

Judea Pearl. (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press.

Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. (2018). The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Basic Books.

Answer 3

I found additional books on causal inference. The only one of these that are on the sub-field of causal discovery might be the one that has discovery in the name.

Answer 4

To get some basic concepts on causality (e.g. d-separation, confounding, causal sufficiency, stability, Markov equivalent class ...)

• Chapter 1,2 of Judea Pearl's <Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference>

To know the details of some classic causal discovery algorithms (PC, FCI, with and without causal sufficiency)

• Chapter 6 of Spirtes's <Causation, Prediction, and Search>
• Jiji Zhang's paper