Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals

01/27/2023
by   A. Philip Dawid, et al.
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This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approach is dangerously misguided and should not be used in practice.

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