Flowers of the First Law of Causal Inference (3)
Flower 3 — Generalizing experimental findings Continuing our examination of “the flowers of the First Law” (see previous flowers here and here) this posting looks at one of the most crucial questions...
View ArticleDavid Freedman, Statistics, and Structural Equation Models
(Re-edited: 5/6/15, 4 pm) Michael A Lewis (Hunter College) sent us the following query: Dear Judea, I was reading a book by the late statistician David Freedman and in it he uses the term “response...
View ArticleMid-Summer Greeting from the UCLA Causality Blog
Friends in causality research, This mid-summer greeting of UCLA Causality blog contains: A. News items concerning causality research B. Discussions and scientific results 1. The next issue of the...
View ArticleRecollections from the WCE conference at Stanford
On May 21, Kosuke Imai and I participated in a panel on Mediation, at the annual meeting of the West Coast Experiment Conference, organized by Stanford Graduate School of Business...
View ArticleOn the Classification and Subsumption of Causal Models
From Christos Dimitrakakis: >> To be honest, there is such a plethora of causal models, that it is not entirely clear what subsumes what, and which one is equivalent to what. Is there a simple...
View ArticleThe Three Layer Causal Hierarchy
Recent discussions concerning causal mediation gave me the impression that many researchers in the field are not familiar with the ramifications of the Causal Hierarchy, as articulated in Chapter 1 of...
View Article2017 Mid-Summer Update
Dear friends in causality research, Welcome to the 2017 Mid-summer greeting from the Ucla Causality Blog. This greeting discusses the following topics: 1. “The Eight Pillars of Causal Wisdom” and the...
View ArticleOn Imbens’s Comparison of Two Approaches to Empirical Economics
Many readers have asked for my reaction to Guido Imbens’s recent paper, titled, “Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics,”...
View ArticleData versus Science: Contesting the Soul of Data-Science
SummaryThe post below is written for the upcoming Spanish translation of The Book of Why, which was announced today. It expresses my firm belief that the current data-fitting direction taken by “Data...
View ArticlePersonalized Decision Making
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