Causal Catalog

Causal Catalog#

Study Designs#

Randomized Experiments#

Assumptions needed
  • Consistency
  • No interference

Assumptions ensured
  • Exchangeability

Causal quantities identified
  • Average treatment effect (ATE)

Advantages

Disadvantages
  • Not having to worry about confounders
  • Ability to make causal inferences!
  • No bias due to confounding
  • Exchangeability is guaranteed
  • Easier to generalize results
  • Expensive 💰and time consuming ⏰
  • Giving people a placebo :(
  • Hard to maintain randomness completely
  • Ethical constraints
  • May be difficult to get a large number of participants
  • Compliance/human aspect of reacting to treatment
  • Not feasible in a lot of scenarios

More designs to come!#

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