Extended conditional independence and applications in causal inference

DOI10.1214/16-AOS1537zbMATH Open1396.62002arXiv1512.00245OpenAlexW2963542226WikidataQ130494037 ScholiaQ130494037MaRDI QIDQ682301FDOQ682301

Authors: Juan-Miguel Gracia 

Publication date: 14 February 2018

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

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to integrate the notions of stochastic conditional independence and variation conditional independence under a more general notion of extended conditional independence. We show that under appropriate assumptions the calculus that applies for the two cases separately (axioms of a separoid) still applies for the extended case. These results provide a rigorous basis for a wide range of statistical concepts, including ancillarity and sufficiency, and, in particular, the Decision Theoretic framework for statistical causality, which uses the language and calculus of conditional independence in order to express causal properties and make causal inferences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00245

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zbMATH Keywords

causal inferencesufficiencycausalityconditional independenceBayesian approachancillaritydecision theoretic frameworkextended conditional independenceseparoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) General considerations in statistical decision theory (62C05) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

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