Causal inference in statistics: an overview

DOI10.1214/09-SS057zbMATH Open1300.62013WikidataQ29300503 ScholiaQ29300503MaRDI QIDQ975575FDOQ975575

Judea Pearl

Publication date: 9 June 2010

Published in: Statistics Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

mediationconfoundingcausal effectscounterfactualspolicy evaluationstructural equation modelsgraphical methodscauses of effectspotential-outcome

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09) Foundational topics in statistics (62A99)

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