Follow-up note posted by Elias Bareinboim
Andrew Gelman and his blog readers followed-up with the previous discussion (link here) on his methods to address issues about causal inference and transportability of causal effects based on his “hierarchical modeling” framework, and I just posted my answer.
This is the general link for the discussion:
http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/examples-of-the-use-of-hierarchical-modeling-to-generalize-to-new-settings/
Here is my answer:
http://andrewgelman.com/2012/07/examples-of-the-use-of-hierarchical-modeling-to-generalize-to-new-settings/#comment-92499
Cheers,
Bareinboim