Causal Inference

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Causal Inference.

• Causal notation — A symbolic or diagrammatic convention that distinguishes asserted causal influence from association, function, sequence or logical implication.
• Differential effects — In observational causal comparison, the outcome contrast produced by applying one treatment rather than another, distinguished from differential assignment bias that can mimic that contrast.
• Propensity score matching — An observational causal-inference method that matches treated and untreated units with similar estimated probabilities of treatment given observed covariates.