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Understanding Stay-at-home Attitudes through Framing Analysis of Tweets
Zahra Fatemi, Abari Bhattacharya, Andrew Wentzel +6
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of public policy measures have been developed to curb the spread of the virus. However, little is known about the attitudes toward…
Learning Relational Causal Models with Cycles through Relational Acyclification
Ragib Ahsan, David Arbour, Elena Zheleva
In real-world phenomena which involve mutual influence or causal effects between interconnected units, equilibrium states are typically represented with cycles in graphical models.…
Determining Causality in Travel Mode Choice
Rishabh Singh Chauhan, Christoffer Riis, Shishir Adhikari +4
This article presents one of the pioneering studies on causal modeling in travel mode choice decision-making using causal discovery algorithms. These models are a major advancement…
Non-Parametric Inference of Relational Dependence
Ragib Ahsan, Zahra Fatemi, David Arbour +1
Independence testing plays a central role in statistical and causal inference from observational data. Standard independence tests assume that the data samples are independent and…
Improving Data-driven Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation Under Structure Uncertainty
Christopher Tran, Elena Zheleva
Estimating how a treatment affects units individually, known as heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation, is an essential part of decision-making and policy implementation.…
Relational Causal Models with Cycles:Representation and Reasoning
Ragib Ahsan, David Arbour, Elena Zheleva
Causal reasoning in relational domains is fundamental to studying real-world social phenomena in which individual units can influence each other's traits and behavior. Dynamics bet…