A Primer on Causal Analysis

Finnian Lattimore, Cheng Soon Ong

Published 2018-06-05Version 1

We provide a conceptual map to navigate causal analysis problems. Focusing on the case of discrete random variables, we consider the case of causal effect estimation from observational data. The presented approaches apply also to continuous variables, but the issue of estimation becomes more complex. We then introduce the four schools of thought for causal analysis