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Causal Inference with Bayesian Networks
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Epidemiology is a branch of the medical sciences that investigates the spread and causes of diseases within groups of people. The goal of many epidemiological studies is to estimate the causal effect of a specific exposure on a particular outcome. Survival analysis is concerned with estimating treatment effects on the expected time until the occurrence of an event. In this chapter, we present a detailed analysis of the NHEFS (National Health Epidemiologic Follow-up Study) dataset and use causal survival analysis methods to estimate the effect of smoking cessation on mortality. We will demonstrate how the lifelines and causallib packages in Python can be used to perform the causal survival analysis.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics: