Causal graphs: addressing the confounding problem without instruments or ignorability

DOI10.1214/14-STS488MaRDI QIDQ252720zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ilya Shpitser

Publication date 4 March 2016

Published in Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0473, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1411437516

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General nonlinear regression (62J02) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Abstract: Discussion of "Instrumental Variables: An Econometrician's Perspective" by Guido W. Imbens [arXiv:1410.0163].

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