Richard Scheines
Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. - 1987: History and Philosophy of Science, University
of Pittsburgh.
- Thesis: Causal Models in the Social Sciences.
- Advisor: Clark Glymour
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
- Philosophy of Science (Causation)
- Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning)
- Educational Computing (Online Courses and Virtual Labs)
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Professor and Head: Dept. of Philosophy
Professor (secondary appointment):
PUBLICATIONS
Books (Selected)
- Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process (2007). Committee on Evaluation of the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, J. Samet, and C. Bodurow, editors. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
- Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity, (2006).Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
- Causation, Prediction, and Search (2000), 2nd edition,
P. Spirtes, C. Glymour, and R. Scheines, MIT Press, Boston
- Discovering Causal Structure: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy
of Science, and Statistical Modeling (1987), C. Glymour, R.
Scheines, P. Spirtes, and K. Kelly. Academic Press, San Diego,
CA.
- TETRAD II: Tools for Causal Discovery (1994), R. Scheines,
P. Spirtes, C. Glymour, and C. Meek, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Hillsdale, N.J.
Papers (Selected)
Causation & Statistics - Theory
- Scheines, R. (2008) , Causation, Truth, and the Law, Brooklyn Law Review, 73, 2
- Eberhardt, F., and Scheines R., (2007),Interventions and Causal Inference, in PSA-2006, Proceedings of the 20th biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 2006 http://philsci.org/news/PSA06
- Silva, R., Glymour, C., Scheines, R. and Spirtes, P. (2006) , Learning the Structure of Latent Linear Structure Models, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 7, 191-246.
- Scheines, R. (2006). The Similarity of Causal Inference in Experimental and Non-Experimental Studies, Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meetings, Philosophy of Science, V. 72, N. 5, pp. 927-940.
- N-1 Experiments Suffice to Determine the Causal Relations Among N Variables, (2006).Eberhardt, F., Glymour, C., & Scheines, R. in Innovations in Machine Learning,
Holmes, Dawn E.; Jain, Lakhmi C. (Eds.), Theory and Applications
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 194, Springer-Verlag.
- On the Number of Experiments Sufficient and in the Worst Case Necessary to Identify All Causal Relations Among N Variables, (2005). Eberhardt, F., Glymour, C., & Scheines, R. in Proceedings of the 21 st Conference on Uncertainty and Artificial Intelligence, Fahiem Bacchus and Tommi Jaakkola (editors), AUAI Press, Corvallis, Oregon, pp. 178-184.
- Causal Inference of Ambiguous
Manipulations (2004). Spirtes, P, & Scheines, R.. Proceedings of the 2002 Philosophy of Science Association Meetings.
- Learning Measurement Models for Unobserved Variables, (2003). Silva, R., Scheines, R., Glymour, C., and Spirtes. P., in Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence , U. Kjaerulff and C. Meek, eds., Morgan Kauffman.
- Uniform Consistency
in Causal Inference (2003) Robins, J., Scheines,
R., Spirtes, P., and Wasserman, L., Biometrika, September, 90: 491-515. gs.
- Semi-Instrumental Variables:
A Test for Instrument Admissibility, (2001). In Proceedings
of the 17th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence,
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, 20
- Piece-wise Linear
Instrumental Variable Estimation of Causal Influence, (2001),
Scheines, R., Cooper, G., Changwon Yoo,Tianjiao Chu, in Proceedings
of Eighth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics, Morgan Kauffman.
- Constructing Bayesian
Network Models of Gene Expression Networks from Microarray Data,
(2001) Spirtes, P., Glymour, C., and Scheines, R. Kauffman, S.,Aimale,
V., & Wimberly, F. in Proceedings of the Atlantic Symposium
on Computational Biology, Genome Information Systems and Technology,
Duke University, March.
- Bayesian Estimation
and Testing of Structural Equation Models (1999). Scheines,
R., Hoijtink, H., & Boomsma, A., Psychometrika. 64,
1, pp. 37-52.
Causation and Statistics - Reviews/Handbook/Encyclopedia Articles
- Causation, Statistics, and the Law, Scheines, R. (2008), Journal of Law and Policy, 16,
- Causation, (2004). Scheines, R., in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas . Charles Scribner & Sons.
- Causal Inference (2004). Spirtes, P., Scheines, R.,Glymour, C., Richardson, T., and Meek, C., in Handbook of Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences , ed. David Kaplan, Sage Publications, 447-478.
- Computation and Causation, (2002) R. Scheines, in MetaPhilosophy, 33: 1, Blackwell.
- Using Path Diagrams as a Structural Equation Modeling Tool, (1998). Spirtes, P., Richardson, T., Meek, C., Scheines, R., and Glymour, C., Sociological Methods & Research, Vol. 27, N. 2, 182-225.
- The TETRAD Project : Constraint Based Aids to Model Specification. (1998). Scheines, R., Spirtes, P., Glymour, C., Richardson, T., & Meek, C., Multivariate Behavioral Research, Vol. 33, N. 1, 65-118, & "Reply to Commentary," same issue, 165-180.
- An Introduction to Causal Inference, (1997), R. Scheines, in Causality in Crisis?, V. McKim and S. Turner (eds.), Univ. of Notre Dame Press, pp. 185-200.
Causation & Statistics - Applications
- Estimating Latent Causal Influences: TETRAD III Variable Selection and Bayesian Parameter Estimation: the effect of Lead on IQ, (2000). Scheines, R. Handbook of Data Mining, Pat Hayes, editor, Oxford University Press.
- A Statistical Problem for Inference to Regulatory Structure from Associations of Gene Expression Measurement with Microarrays (2002) Chu, Tianjaio, Glymour C., Scheines, R., & Spirtes, P. (to appear in Bioinformatics).
- Expert Statistical Testimony and Epidemiological Evidence: The Toxic Effects of Lead Exposure on Children (2002). Fienberg, S., Glymour, C., and Scheines, R.(2003). Journal of Econometrics, 113, 1, March, 33-48.
- Single Mothers' Self-Efficacy, Parenting in the Home Environment, and Children's Development in a Two-Wave Study, (2005). Jackson, A., and Scheines, R. in Social Work Research , 29, 1, pp. 7-20.
Education / Educational Computing
- Teaching the Normative Theory of Causal Reasoning (2007). Scheines, R., Easterday, M., and Danks, D. in Alison Gopnik and Laura Schultz, editors, Oxford University Press.
- Easterday, M.W., Aleven, V., & Scheines, R. (2007). 'Tis better to construct than receive: The effects of diagramming tools on learning to analyze social policy. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED- 2007)
- Time and Attention: Students and Tasks (2005). Arnold , A., Scheines, R., Beck, J., and Jerome, B. AAAI-05: Educational Data Mining, Technical Report WS-05-02 AAAI Press.
- Replacing Lecture with Web-Based Course Materials (2005). Scheines, R., Leinhardt, G., Smith, J., and Cho, K. Journal of Eduational Computing Research, 32, 1, 1-26.
- Computer Environments for
Proof Construction," (1994), R. Scheines and W. Sieg,
in Interactive Learning Environments, Elliot Soloway (editor),
Vol. 4, Issue (2), 159-169.
Software (Selected)