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The same concern applies to epidemiology training. In my experience with thesis proposals, there is a growing trend of fitting research questions to a statistical technique.

And on any other night! "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" from The Little Prince I love my cats, Musya and Benji.

Exciting breakthrough from Elias Bareinboim -- a counterfactual-calculus (cfl-calculus), akin to do-calculus, for handling identification problems in Layer-3 of the Causal Hierarchy.

Congratulations to Jacob on a successful defense! What a feast for causal inference: causal diagrams, minimal adjustment sets, mediation analysis, direct and indirect effects, probability of benefit — all in the context of cutting-edge clinical practice! Judea Pearl

Adan Z Becerra, PhD Boris Sobolev Judea Pearl Yes a counterfactual mediation analysis was used to estimate the Natural Direct Effect of recognition in out of hospital cardiac arrest. Example: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37453691/

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That’s not correct! 👇🏻 The assumption is much milder. We just need to assume that the factors we condition on (or stratify on, in epi lingo) block all chains of dependency that could connect the exposure and the outcome. A minimally sufficient adjustment set may not include