Potential Outcomes Framework

Rubin causal model, ignorability, and ATE/ATT estimation.


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Potential Outcomes Framework. Rubin causal model, ignorability, and ATE/ATT estimation.

Foundations and canonical references

The standard treatments of potential outcomes framework approach the subject from complementary angles. Imbens, Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences (2015) is the anchor reference for the subject and lays out the core definitions, theorems, and worked examples that practitioners return to.

Open methodological questions for potential outcomes framework include sharpening the bridges between foundational theory and computational practice, extending classical results to broader or more structured settings, and integrating the techniques surveyed above with adjacent mathematical disciplines. The references listed in this page are the entry points that current work builds on.

Prerequisites

Sources

  • textbook · primary · 2015
    Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences
    imbens-2015, rubin-2015

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