Structural causal models

Key question

Can a model learn causes?

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• Can a model learn causes?

  Connect structural causal models, identification, invariant prediction and counterfactual explanations.

Reading connections

• Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer

  Pearl, Glymour · Jewell

• Causal Models

  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy editors

• Causal Inference: What If

  Hernán · Robins