A calculus for causal inference with instrumental variables

04/21/2021
by   Wing Hung Wong, et al.
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Under a general structural equation framework for causal inference, we provide a definition of the causal effect of a variable X on another variable Y, and propose an approach to estimate this causal effect via the use of instrumental variables.

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