# Source: alcohol_impact
**Category:** biology_health
**README generated:** 2025-10-02 12:52:18Z

## Source URL(s)
- https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/60/liver+disorders

## Citation(s)
- J. M. Mooij, J. Peters, D. Janzing, J. Zscheischler, B. Schlkopf. "Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks", Journal of Machine Learning Research 17(32):1-102, 2016.
- Liver Disorders [Dataset]. (2016). UCI Machine Learning Repository. https://doi.org/10.24432/C54G67.

## Variables (X → Y)

- drinks	number of half-pint equivalents of alcoholic beverages → blood tests(gammagt 	gamma-glutamyl transpeptdase,mcv	mean corpuscular volume,sgot  	aspartate aminotransferase)

## Causal reasoning

The amount of ingested alcohol can lead to liver disorders that can be assessed via blood tests of the molecules above.

## Notes:

Present in the Tübingen dataset.