- 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
- Marginal structural models
link the expected value of a counterfactual outcome to covariates; unlike in regression models, the expected value is not conditional on the covariates
- Markov assumption
conditional on its parents, a variable is independent of any other variable in the directed acyclic graph
- Mediation
production of effect through a third variable
- Positivity
definition
- Propensity score
the probability of treatment given baseline characteristics
- Randomness
the lack of deterministic pattern in occurrence