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Causal Inference with Bayesian Networks
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Chapters 7 and 8 discussed probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks, where beliefs about a variable
are updated by conditioning on observed evidence
. As explained in Chapter 4, the causal effect is evaluating the probability distribution of Y under an intervention on X; the value of X is set or fixed, which is expressed by the do operator, written as
The
operator is a key concept in causal inference, representing an intervention or controlled setting in which we can observe the effect of a variable.
The identifiability problem in causal inference asks whether a causal effect can be uniquely determined from the joint distribution of observed variables. If a causal effect is identifiable, it can be estimated from observational data in a way that yields the same result as a randomized controlled experiment.
The back-door criterion, offers a practical condition to determine the identifiability of a causal effect based solely on the topology of the DAG, a crucial...