© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Choosing Variables
•From Cooper [1984]:
"Metastatic cancer is a possible cause of a brain tumor and is also an explanation for increased total serum calcium.  In turn, either of these could explain a patient falling into a coma.  Severe headache is also possible associated with a brain tumor."
•What are our variables?
•What are the direct causal influences between them?