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Applications of statistical causal inference in software engineering

Software Engineering 2023-03-24 v3 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

This paper reviews existing work in software engineering that applies statistical causal inference methods. These methods aim at estimating causal effects from observational data. The review covers 32 papers published between 2010 and 2022. Our results show that the application of statistical causal inference methods is relatively recent and that the corresponding research community remains relatively fragmented.

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@article{arxiv.2211.11482,
  title  = {Applications of statistical causal inference in software engineering},
  author = {Julien Siebert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11482},
  year   = {2023}
}

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38 pages, 12 tables, 9 figures, submitted to Information and Software Technology

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