Statistical Causality from a Decision-Theoretic Perspective

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 273-303

  Dawid, A Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Confounding; Directed acyclic graph; Dynamic treatment strategy; Effect of treatment on the treated; Moralization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928163239     PISSN: 23268298     EISSN: 2326831X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-statistics-010814-020105     Document Type: Review

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