Identification of principal causal effects using additional outcomes in concentration graphs

F Mealli, B Pacini… - Journal of Educational …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016journals.sagepub.com
Unless strong assumptions are made, nonparametric identification of principal causal effects
can only be partial and bounds (or sets) for the causal effects are established. In the
presence of a secondary outcome, recent results exist to sharpen the bounds that exploit
conditional independence assumptions. More general results, though not embedded in a
causal framework, can be found in concentration graphical models with a latent variable.
The aim of this article is to establish a link between the two settings and to show that …
Unless strong assumptions are made, nonparametric identification of principal causal effects can only be partial and bounds (or sets) for the causal effects are established. In the presence of a secondary outcome, recent results exist to sharpen the bounds that exploit conditional independence assumptions. More general results, though not embedded in a causal framework, can be found in concentration graphical models with a latent variable. The aim of this article is to establish a link between the two settings and to show that adapting and extending results pertaining to concentration graphical models can help achieving identification of principal casual effects in studies when more than one additional outcome is available. Model selection criteria are also suggested. An empirical illustrative example is provided, using data from a real social experiment.
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