Category Archives: causal inference

“Inferring change points in the spread of COVID-19 reveals the effectiveness of interventions”

Posted on 10 July 2020 by ecoquant

J. Dehning et al., Science 369, eabb9789 (2020). DOI: 10.1126/science.abb9789 Source code and data. Note: This is not a classical approach to assessing strength of interventions using either counterfactuals or other kinds of causal inference. Accordingly, the argument for the … Continue reading →

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“Code for causal inference: Interested in astronomical applications”

Posted on 21 February 2020 by ecoquant

via Code for causal inference: Interested in astronomical applications From Professor Ewan Cameron at his Another Astrostatistics Blog.

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