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Jul 26, 20261 min read

Causality is semantically overcharged. It may refer to the information extracted from causal interventions.

  • back-door adjustment formula
  • front-door adjustment formula
  • solving causality problems via conditionals
  • non-solvable identifiability problems
  • smoking causes cancer problem
  • Napkin problem

References.

  • Causality (Pearl, 2009)
  • Causal Inference by String Diagram Surgery (Jacobs, Kissinger, Zanasi)
  • Basic Causal Inference via String Diagrams (Piedeleu, 2023)
  • Identification of Conditional Interventional Distributions (Shpitser and Pearl, 2006)
  • A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls (Cinelly, Forney, Pearl, 2022)

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  • Napkin problem
  • do-calculus
  • from DAGs to ADMGs
  • non-solvable identifiability problems
  • M-bias in causal inference
  • back-door adjustment formula
  • Front-door adjustment formula
  • probability
  • solving causality problems via conditionals
  • rewriting an identifiability example
  • smoking causes cancer

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