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A Primer on Causal Analysis

Machine Learning 2018-06-06 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We provide a conceptual map to navigate causal analysis problems. Focusing on the case of discrete random variables, we consider the case of causal effect estimation from observational data. The presented approaches apply also to continuous variables, but the issue of estimation becomes more complex. We then introduce the four schools of thought for causal analysis

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@article{arxiv.1806.01488,
  title  = {A Primer on Causal Analysis},
  author = {Finnian Lattimore and Cheng Soon Ong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01488},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Parts of this document are copied verbatim from Finnian Lattimore's PhD thesis, ANU 2018

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