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...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0049124113518190 2024-06-16T07:40:21+00:00 Assessing Causes for Individuals Comments on Dawid, Faigman, and Fienberg Jewell, Nicholas P. 2014 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 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Sociological Methods & Research volume 43, issue 3, page 391-395 ISSN 0049-1241 1552-8294 journal-article 2014 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124113518190 2024-05-19T13:04:15Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland SAGE Publications Greenland Sociological Methods & Research 43 3 391 395 |
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