CAUSAL DATA SCIENCE
DAGs and Control Variables
How to select control variables for causal inference using Directed Acyclic Graphs
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7 min readApr 25, 2022
When analyzing causal relationships, it is very hard to understand which variables to condition the analysis on, i.e. how to “split” the data so that we are comparing apples to apples. For example, if you want to understand…