Assessing Causes for Individuals
In commenting on Dawid, Faigman, and Fienberg, the author contrasts the proposed parameter, the probability of causation, to other parameters in the causal inference literature, specifically the probability of necessity discussed by Pearl, and Robins and Greenland, and Pearl’s probability of suffici...
| Published in: | Sociological Methods & Research |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124113518190 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0049124113518190 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0049124113518190 |
| Summary: | In commenting on Dawid, Faigman, and Fienberg, the author contrasts the proposed parameter, the probability of causation, to other parameters in the causal inference literature, specifically the probability of necessity discussed by Pearl, and Robins and Greenland, and Pearl’s probability of sufficiency. This article closes with a few comments about the difficulties of estimation of parameters related to individual causation. |
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