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A Second Chance to Get Causal Inference Right: A Classification of Data Science Tasks

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Hernán, Miguel A., Hsu, John, Healy, Brian·2019·CHANCE

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For much of the recent history of science, learning from data was the academic realm of statistics,1,2 but in the early 20th century, the founders of modern statistics made a momentous decision abo...

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Authors: Hernán, M. A., Hsu, J., & Healy, B.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
ORCID: Healy, Brian
Venue: CHANCE
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Published: 2019-01-02
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
Pages: 42-49
ISSN: 0933-2480 (ISSN-L)
1867-2280
DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2019.1579578
OpenAlex: W2798958557
Cited by: 495
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 70 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 70 · 2022: 64 · 2021: 67 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 20
FWCI: 40.73
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: CHANCE (publishedVersion)
arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistics Education and Methodologies
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation
Keywords: causal inference, history of statistics, learning from data

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