Chapter 15: Causal Machine Learning

Backdoor Adjustment and Control Selection in Causal DAGs intermediate

Before you estimate a treatment effect, you need to know which variables identify it and which ones poison it.

Before you estimate a treatment effect, you need to know which variables identify it and which ones poison it.

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References

Causality for Machine Learning
Bernhard Schölkopf (2022)
The seven tools of causal inference, with reflections on machine learning
Judea Pearl (2019) — Communications of the ACM
Schur Complementary Portfolios: A Unification of Machine Learning and Optimization-Based Diversification
Peter Cotton (2024)