Causality with Less Modeling
Nick Huntington‐Klein · 2021
Everything we&s;ve done up to now when thinking about identifying a causal effect has started with the same idea: draw a causal diagram. Draw a causal diagram to map out our idea of the data generating process, use that diagram to list out all the paths from treatment to outcome, and then close pathways so that we are left with just the Good Paths we want. Then we&s;ve identified our effect!