Statistical causality from a decision-theoretic perspective

AP Dawid - Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2015 - annualreviews.org
We present an overview of the decision-theoretic framework of statistical causality, which is
well suited for formulating and solving problems of determining the effects of applied causes …

Covariate selection for the nonparametric estimation of an average treatment effect

X De Luna, I Waernbaum, TS Richardson - Biometrika, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Observational studies in which the effect of a nonrandomized treatment on an outcome of
interest is estimated are common in domains such as labour economics and epidemiology …

Covariate selection strategies for causal inference: Classification and comparison

J Witte, V Didelez - Biometrical Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
When causal effects are to be estimated from observational data, we have to adjust for
confounding. A central aim of covariate selection for causal inference is therefore to …

Complete graphical characterization and construction of adjustment sets in Markov equivalence classes of ancestral graphs

E Perkovi, J Textor, M Kalisch, MH Maathuis - Journal of Machine …, 2018 - jmlr.org
We present a graphical criterion for covariate adjustment that is sound and complete for four
different classes of causal graphical models: directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), maximal …

Identifying the consequences of dynamic treatment strategies: A decision-theoretic overview

AP Dawid, V Didelez - 2010 - projecteuclid.org
We consider the problem of learning about and comparing the consequences of dynamic
treatment strategies on the basis of observational data. We formulate this within a …

Decision-theoretic foundations for statistical causality

P Dawid - Journal of Causal Inference, 2021 - degruyter.com
We develop a mathematical and interpretative foundation for the enterprise of decision-
theoretic (DT) statistical causality, which is a straightforward way of representing and …

The probability of causation

AP Dawid, M Musio, R Murtas - Law, Probability and Risk, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Many legal cases require decisions about causality, responsibility or blame, and these may
be based on statistical data. However, causal inferences from such data are beset by subtle …

Extended conditional independence and applications in causal inference

P Constantinou, AP Dawid - The Annals of Statistics, 2017 - JSTOR
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 …

Evaluating treatment effectiveness under model misspecification: a comparison of targeted maximum likelihood estimation with bias-corrected matching

N Kreif, S Gruber, R Radice, R Grieve… - Statistical methods in …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Statistical approaches for estimating treatment effectiveness commonly model the endpoint,
or the propensity score, using parametric regressions such as generalised linear models …

Information theoretic causal effect quantification

A Wieczorek, V Roth - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Modelling causal relationships has become popular across various disciplines. Most
common frameworks for causality are the Pearlian causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) …