Sentence examples for making causal assumptions from inspiring English sources

The notation of DAGs has the merit of making causal assumptions explicit.

The present findings would provide a further understanding of the assumption of conditional exchangeability, clarifying the link between the assumptions for making causal inferences in observational studies and the counterfactual approach.

The present findings would somehow clarify the link between the assumptions for making causal inferences in observational studies and the counterfactual approach, demonstrating the inherent distinctions between observational studies and randomized controlled trials.

We make the following "causal assumptions" (Vansteelandt, 2007).

As Fabrigar, Porter, and Norris (2010) state, If one model is found to be clearly superior to other models, a researcher might reasonably make the case that certain causal assumptions are more plausible than others for the given dataset (p. 222).

One should however expect that this makes both standard model assumptions and causal assumptions harder to meet.

A limitation on the other hand is that it is observational and hence no causal assumptions can be made.

The finding that participants who did not undergo surgery also demonstrated improved overall HRQoL, could indicate a separate effect of the mastery course; however, as the study was a descriptive, rather than an intervention study, no causal assumptions can be made.

As for causal assumptions, it is clear that with the complexity of multi-state models, causal interpretation should not be made naively.

Strong causal assumptions assume that parameters take specific values.

causal effects Let be manipulable and the "causal assumptions" of Section 1995 hold.