Minimal sufficient causation and directed acyclic graphs

DOI10.1214/08-AOS613zbMATH Open1160.62003arXiv0906.1720OpenAlexW3098254788MaRDI QIDQ1018646FDOQ1018646

Authors: Tyler J. Vanderweele, James Robins 

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Notions of minimal sufficient causation are incorporated within the directed acyclic graph causal framework. Doing so allows for the graphical representation of sufficient causes and minimal sufficient causes on causal directed acyclic graphs while maintaining all of the properties of causal directed acyclic graphs. This in turn provides a clear theoretical link between two major conceptualizations of causality: one counterfactual-based and the other based on a more mechanistic understanding of causation. The theory developed can be used to draw conclusions about the sign of the conditional covariances among variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1720

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zbMATH Keywords

causal inferenceinteractionsgraphical modelsconditional independencedirected acyclic graphssynergismsufficient causation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20) Neural nets and related approaches to inference from stochastic processes (62M45) Nonparametric inference (62G99) Knowledge representation (68T30)

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