{"id":187,"date":"2010-05-15T02:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=187"},"modified":"2015-12-03T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:52:52","slug":"comments-on-robins-and-richardsons-mcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/15\/comments-on-robins-and-richardsons-mcm\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Causal Hierarchy and Robins and Richardson&#8217;s MCM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Judea Pearl writes:<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas&#8217; latest posting triggered my curiosity to re-examine the causal hierarchy. Originally (see Causality chapter 1), I have characterized causal sentences into three categories:<\/p>\n<p>1. probabilistic (i.e., non-causal, or what we can estimate from observational studies)<br \/>\n2. experimental (i.e., do-expressions, or what we can estimate from controlled, randomized experiments)<br \/>\n3. counterfactuals (i.e., subscripted sentences, or everything that can be computed from a fully specified structural model that is, a collection of functions with probabilities on the exogenous variables)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/mediation-part3.pdf\">Click here for the full post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, we welcome your views on this topic. To continue the discussion, please use the comment link below to add your thoughts. You can also suggest a new topic of discussion using our submission form by <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/viewform?formkey=dDdqRzJtb250UFhHSkw0dDMtZ2JubFE6MA..\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judea Pearl writes: Thomas&#8217; latest posting triggered my curiosity to re-examine the causal hierarchy. Originally (see Causality chapter 1), I have characterized causal sentences into three categories: 1. probabilistic (i.e., non-causal, or what we can estimate from observational studies) 2. experimental (i.e., do-expressions, or what we can estimate from controlled, randomized experiments) 3. counterfactuals (i.e., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}