Dear Applied Statistics Community,
This Wednesday the applied statistics workshop presents Donald Rubin -- Department of Statistics, Harvard University – who will present, "Direct and Indirect Causal Effects: An unhelpful distinction?" Don has suggested the following papers provide a helpful background to his talk:
2003 -
"Assumptions Allowing the Estimation of Direct Causal Effects: Discussion of
`Healthy,
Wealthy,
and Wise? Tests for Direct Causal Paths Between Health and Socioeconomic
Status' by
Adams et al.'". Journal of Econometrics, 112, pp. 79-87. (With F. Mealli.)
2004 -
"Direct and Indirect Causal Effects Via Potential Outcomes." The Scandinavian
Journal of
Statistics,
31, pp. 161-170; 196-198, with discussion and reply
"Causal
Inference Using Potential Outcomes: Design, Modeling, Decisions." 2004 Fisher
Lecture.
The Journal of the American Statistical Association, 100, 469, pp. 322-331.
The workshop meets at 12 noon
in room N-354 CGIS-Knafel (1737 Cambridge St)
with a light lunch, with presentations usually beginning at 1215.
Please send along any comments or concerns
Cheers
Justin