“The book can be recommended for researchers in causal discovery with expertise in either statistics or machine learning. Although the chapters are written by different authors, readers will appreciate the book's coherent organization ... . ” (Corrado Mencar, Computing Reviews, May 17, 2022)

• 1. The cause-effect problem: motivation, ideas, and popular misconceptions.- 2. Evaluation methods of cause-effect pairs.- 3. Learning Bivariate Functional Causal Models.- 4. Discriminant Learning Machines.- 5. Cause-Effect Pairs in Time Series with a Focus on Econometrics.- 6. Beyond cause-effect pairs.- 7. Results of the Cause-Effect Pair Challenge.- 8. Non-linear Causal Inference using Gaussianity Measures.- 9. From Dependency to Causality: A Machine Learning Approach.- 10. Pattern-based Causal Feature Extraction.- 11. Training Gradient Boosting Machines using Curve-fitting and Information-theoretic Features for Causal Direction Detection.- 12. Conditional distribution variability measures for causality detection.- 13. Feature importance in causal inference for numerical and categorical variables.- 14. Markov Blanket Ranking using Kernel-based Conditional Dependence Measures.

“The book can be recommended for researchers in causal discovery with expertise in either statistics or machine learning. Although the chapters are written by different authors, readers will appreciate the book's coherent organization ... . ” (Corrado Mencar, Computing Reviews, May 17, 2022)

• 1. The cause-effect problem: motivation, ideas, and popular misconceptions.- 2. Evaluation methods of cause-effect pairs.- 3. Learning Bivariate Functional Causal Models.- 4. Discriminant Learning Machines.- 5. Cause-Effect Pairs in Time Series with a Focus on Econometrics.- 6. Beyond cause-effect pairs.- 7. Results of the Cause-Effect Pair Challenge.- 8. Non-linear Causal Inference using Gaussianity Measures.- 9. From Dependency to Causality: A Machine Learning Approach.- 10. Pattern-based Causal Feature Extraction.- 11. Training Gradient Boosting Machines using Curve-fitting and Information-theoretic Features for Causal Direction Detection.- 12. Conditional distribution variability measures for causality detection.- 13. Feature importance in causal inference for numerical and categorical variables.- 14. Markov Blanket Ranking using Kernel-based Conditional Dependence Measures.