Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice

November 25, 2012

Eric Neufeld on Rubin vs. Pearl models

Filed under: General — eb @ 1:45 pm

Eric Neufeld (University of Saskatchewan/Canada) asks:

I have been interested in giving a lecture to lay people about your work, but would like to compare/contrast it with Rubin’s work. I understand how strongly you disagree! But I would appreciate it if you could point me to a couple of your articles that lay the argument out in an accessible way.

Judea Pearl replies:

I have written a fairly decent section on Rubin’s model in Statistics Surveys:
http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r350.pdf
and a less technical one in:
http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r348-warning.pdf
(unpublished but highly recommended.)

Important to stress: I do not disagree with Rubin’s work (it is subsumed by structural modeling), I am merely mused by the tunnel-visioned culture that this work has engendered.

1 Comment »

  1. This may be of interest: http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1003096

    Comment by konrad — November 30, 2012 @ 1:27 am

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