Are Parental Care Costs Really Due to 'Certification'? The Causal Inference Trap Everyone Falls Into

Suppose your parent receives long-term care certification and their monthly expenses jump from 100,000 yen to 300,000 yen.

The Limits of Causal Inference from Observational Data That Statisticians Hide—And Why We Keep Using It Anyway

Correlation is not causation—despite hearing this warning repeated so often, everyone in the business world says, ...
BIOENGINEER

Causal AI Predicts IVF Success and Reveals Which Changes Actually Help

For couples undergoing in vitro fertilization, one of the most agonizing questions is also the most basic: what are the real ...
Medical Xpress

Advancing causal inference in clinical neuroscience research

In a perspective published in Psychoradiology, researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University confronted causal inference in clinical neuroscience research and advocate for more clarity and ...
Diginomica

How causal analysis and AI intersect - methods of causal inference

Our foray into causal analysis is not yet complete. Until we define the methods of causal inference, we can't get to the deeper insights that causal analysis can provide. This article details many of ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Causal inference under selection on observables in operations management research: Matching methods and synthetic controls

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Causal Inference and COVID: Contrasting Methods for Evaluating Pandemic Impacts Using State Assessments

This paper describes threats to making valid causal inferences about pandemic impacts on student learning based on cross-year comparisons of average test scores. The paper uses Spring 2021 test score ...