The estimated causal effect on the variance based on the front-door criterion in Gaussian linear structural equation models: an unbiased estimator with the exact variance

DOI10.1007/S00362-023-01401-8MaRDI QIDQ6579377zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Manabu Kuroki, Taiki Tezuka

Publication date 25 July 2024

Published in Statistical Papers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

zbMATH Keywords

causal effecttotal effectpath diagramregression coefficientfront-door criterionstructural causal model (SCM)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic graphical models (62H22) Causal inference from observational studies (62D20)

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