Testing causal theories with learned proxies

D Knox, C Lucas, WKT Cho - Annual Review of Political Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Social scientists commonly use computational models to estimate proxies of unobserved
concepts, then incorporate these proxies into subsequent tests of their theories. The …

Data-driven causal effect estimation based on graphical causal modelling: A survey

D Cheng, J Li, L Liu, J Liu, TD Le - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In many fields of scientific research and real-world applications, unbiased estimation of
causal effects from non-experimental data is crucial for understanding the mechanism …

Sharp bounds for generalized causal sensitivity analysis

D Frauen, V Melnychuk… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Causal inference from observational data is crucial for many disciplines such as medicine
and economics. However, sharp bounds for causal effects under relaxations of the …

Partial identification of treatment effects with implicit generative models

V Balazadeh Meresht, V Syrgkanis… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We consider the problem of partial identification, the estimation of bounds on the treatment
effects from observational data. Although studied using discrete treatment variables or in …

Covariate-assisted bounds on causal effects with instrumental variables

AW Levis, M Bonvini, Z Zeng, L Keele… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
When an exposure of interest is confounded by unmeasured factors, an instrumental
variable (IV) can be used to identify and estimate certain causal contrasts. Identification of …

A neural framework for generalized causal sensitivity analysis

D Frauen, F Imrie, A Curth, V Melnychuk… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Unobserved confounding is common in many applications, making causal inference from
observational data challenging. As a remedy, causal sensitivity analysis is an important tool …

Falsification before extrapolation in causal effect estimation

ZM Hussain, M Oberst, MC Shih… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) represent a gold standard when developing
policy guidelines. However, RCTs are often narrow, and lack data on broader populations of …

Estimating and improving dynamic treatment regimes with a time-varying instrumental variable

S Chen, B Zhang - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Estimating dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) from retrospective observational data is
challenging as some degree of unmeasured confounding is often expected. In this work, we …

Partial identification with noisy covariates: A robust optimization approach

W Guo, M Yin, Y Wang… - Conference on causal …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Causal inference from observational datasets often relies on measuring and adjusting for
covariates. In practice, measurements of the covariates can often be noisy and/or biased, or …

[HTML][HTML] Approximating counterfactual bounds while fusing observational, biased and randomised data sources

M Zaffalon, A Antonucci, R Cabañas… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We address the problem of integrating data from multiple, possibly biased, observational
and interventional studies, to eventually compute counterfactuals in structural causal …