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Statistics and Causal Inference
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Problems involving causal inference have dogged at the heels of statistics since its earliest days. Correlation does not imply causation, and yet causal conclusions drawn from a carefully designed experiment are often valid. What can a statistical model say about causation? This question is addressed by using a particular model for causal inference (Holland and Rubin 1983; Rubin 1974) to critique the discussions of other writers on causation and causal inference. These include selected philosophers, medical researchers, statisticians, econometricians, and proponents of causal modeling.
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“In uplift modeling, however, the actual outcome that is estimated is unobserved, and therefore the error made by the model cannot be measured at the individual customer level.”
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“Historical data containing information on observed customer behavior never allows classifying customers in the four groups shown in Table 1, as the net e ↵ ect of treatment cannot be observed for an individual customer due to the fundamental problem of causal inference [34].”
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“Uplift or, in other words, whether a customer is persuadable, a lost cause, do-notdisturb or a sure thing, cannot be observed due to the fundamental problem of causal inference [34].”
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“Since the antecedent variable is an experimental variable in a randomized study, its causal relation to the mediator and the outcome variable can be interpreted unambiguously102,103.”
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“Key to the ability to make inferences about mean causal effects are the assumptions of unit homogeneity and independence of units (Holland, 1986; King, Keohane and Verba, 1994: 91-97).”
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- Authors
- Holland, P. W.
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- Educational Testing Service (US)
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- Holland, Paul W.
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- Holland, Paul W.
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- Informa UK Limited
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- 1986-12
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- 81
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- 945-960
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