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Causal Estimation

Causal Estimation is a methodological framework within the Potential Outcomes Framework that identifies and quantifies the causal effect of a treatment or intervention by comparing observed outcomes under different hypothetical treatment assignments, distinguishing it from predictive or associative methods through its focus on counterfactual reasoning and unbiased effect measurement.

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Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies.

Donald B. Rubin · Journal of Educational Psychology · 1974 · 9.5K citations · Full text

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Statistics and Causal Inference

Paul W. Holland · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1986 · 5.1K citations

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Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference

Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King et al. · Political Analysis · 2007 · 4.3K citations · Full text

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Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1996 · 4.2K citations

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Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables

Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1996 · 4.1K citations · Full text

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    Donald B. Rubin

    Harvard University, United States

    23 publications · 23.6K citations

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    Miguel A. Hernán

    Harvard University, United States

    26 publications · 8.8K citations

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    Judea Pearl

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    28 publications · 5.2K citations

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    Mark J. van der Laan

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    29 publications · 1.7K citations

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    James M. Robins

    Harvard University, United States

    21 publications · 12.3K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    52 h-index

    162 publications

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  2. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    54 publications

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  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    32 h-index

    104 publications

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  4. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    28 h-index

    56 publications

    10.5K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    25 h-index

    57 publications

    9.2K citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    24 h-index

    53 publications

    3.1K citations

  7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    24 h-index

    47 publications

    14.1K citations

  8. Columbia University

    New York, United States

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    44 publications

    5K citations

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    Repository · 69 publications · 2.3K citations

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  3. Statistics in Medicine

    31 publications · 4K citations

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  4. American Journal of Epidemiology

    AJE · 32 publications · 7K citations

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  5. Epidemiology

    27 publications · 12.3K citations

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