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Causal inference and counterfactuals authorseditors. Statistical inference is concerned with the question how likely it is to observe this relationship given the null hypothesis of no relationship. A primer, provides a concise introduction to a topic of fundamental importance for the enterprise of drawing scientific inferences from data. Wewill discuss the broader philosophical literature in chapters 8 and 10, as it does have some implications. In this second edition of counterfactuals and causal inference, completely revised and expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data analysis are presented with examples from the social, demographic, and. Counterfactual causality and empirical research in the. Rubin considered the modelling of the joint distribution of y c and y t as not always necessary. Counterfactual theories of causation stanford encyclopedia.
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