{"id":24,"date":"2004-02-16T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=12"},"modified":"2004-02-16T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T07:00:58","slug":"submodel-for-subgraphs-of-direct-effect-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/02\/16\/submodel-for-subgraphs-of-direct-effect-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Submodel for subgraphs of direct effect removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Susan Scott, Australia<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><font>In the <em>do<\/em>-calculus inference rules, I understand how the subgraph is  generated from the submodel <em>do(X = x), Gx<\/em>, the removal of direct  causes and therefore <em>d<\/em>-separation is a valid test for conditional  independence. However I don&#39;t understand the submodel for subgraphs  representing the removal of direct effects. Would you please explain the  submodel I could use to explain this subgraph and what distribution it  represents.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Susan Scott, Australia In the do-calculus inference rules, I understand how the subgraph is generated from the submodel do(X = x), Gx, the removal of direct causes and therefore d-separation is a valid test for conditional independence. However I don&#39;t understand the submodel for subgraphs representing the removal of direct effects. Would you please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-calculus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","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=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}