Causal inference in transportation safety studies: comparison of potential outcomes and causal diagrams
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DOI10.1214/10-AOAS440zbMATH Open1223.62175arXiv1107.4855WikidataQ130494084 ScholiaQ130494084MaRDI QIDQ641089FDOQ641089
Authors: Vishesh Karwa, Aleksandra Slavković, Eric T. Donnell 
Publication date: 21 October 2011
Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The research questions that motivate transportation safety studies are causal in nature. Safety researchers typically use observational data to answer such questions, but often without appropriate causal inference methodology. The field of causal inference presents several modeling frameworks for probing empirical data to assess causal relations. This paper focuses on exploring the applicability of two such modeling frameworks---Causal Diagrams and Potential Outcomes---for a specific transportation safety problem. The causal effects of pavement marking retroreflectivity on safety of a road segment were estimated. More specifically, the results based on three different implementations of these frameworks on a real data set were compared: Inverse Propensity Score Weighting with regression adjustment and Propensity Score Matching with regression adjustment versus Causal Bayesian Network. The effect of increased pavement marking retroreflectivity was generally found to reduce the probability of target nighttime crashes. However, we found that the magnitude of the causal effects estimated are sensitive to the method used and to the assumptions being violated.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4855
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