Resources for Causal Reasoning in Health Services Research

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Counterfactual reasoning
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Counterfactual reasoning

comparing potential outcomes of alternative interventions with observed outcomes in a thought experiment

Directed acyclic graph (DAG)
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Directed acyclic graph (DAG)

a graph in which nodes represent variables and arrows represent influence between the variables they connect without loops; an arrow drawn from variable X to variable Y represents a dependency of Y on X, and no dependency of X on Y

Interventional probability
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Interventional probability

the probability of outcome of a deliberately set intervention; a truncated form of factorization of the joint probability function in which the conditional probability for intervened variables is replaced with 1, and all other conditional probabilities are considered at set values of the intervened variables

Causality
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Causality

the property of being related in causal fashion

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