Dear colleague in causality research,<\/p>\n
This is a belated End-of-Summer greeting from the UCLA Causality blog, welcoming you back to an open discussion of causality-related issues. Below please find four new postings and three hot topics for discussion.<\/p>\n
1. \u00a0New postings:<\/p>\n
Three new papers and several lecture videos have been\u00a0posted on our website.<\/p>\n
1.1. Pearl and Bareinboim, “Transportability across studies: A formal approach,” October 2010.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r372.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n The paper introduces a formal representation for encoding differences between populations and derives procedures for deciding whether (and how) causal effects in the target environment can be inferred from experimental findings in another.<\/p>\n 1.2. J. Pearl, “The Causal Foundations of Structural Equation Modeling,” August 2010.<\/p>\n http:\/\/ftp.cs.ucla.edu\/pub\/stat_ser\/r370.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n The paper summarizes how traditional SEM methods can be enriched by modern advances in causal and counterfactual inference.<\/p>\n