Relationship of causal effects in a causal chain and related inference

MaRDI QIDQ2386545zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Zhi Geng, Yangbo He, Xueli Wang

Publication date 30 August 2005

Published in Science in China. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

confounding biasidentifiabilityPearl's front-door criterionpotential causal functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

Review text

Criteria of identifiability of causal effects in causal chains are discussed for discrete variables. Using Stone's potential causal functions the authors develop new such criteria which can be considered as extensions of the Pearl's front-door criterion. Their advantage is that they only assume the set of risk factors to the response, without assuming a completely constructed causal diagram. The developed technique can be applied to eliminate the confounding bias through controlling for intermediate variable.

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