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most citedA generalized definition of the average causal effect for both binary and continuous treatments

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stat.ME2025

D-separation for applied researchers: understanding how to interpret directed acyclic graphs

Fernando Pires Hartwig, Timothy Feeney, Neil Davies

The assumed causal relationships depicted in a DAG are interpreted using a set of rules called D-separation rules. Although these rules can be implemented automatically using stand…

stat.ME2024

Empirically assessing the plausibility of unconfoundedness in observational studies

Fernando Pires Hartwig, Kate Tilling, George Davey Smith

The possibility of unmeasured confounding is one of the main limitations for causal inference from observational studies. There are different methods for (partially) empirically as…

stat.ME2021★ 1 cited

A generalized definition of the average causal effect for both binary and continuous treatments

Fernando Pires Hartwig

One of the main tasks of causal inference is estimating well-defined causal parameters. One of the main causal parameters is the average causal effect (ACE) - the expected value of…

stat.ME2021

Homogeneity in the instrument-treatment association is not sufficient for the Wald estimand to equal the average causal effect for a binary instrument and a continuous exposure

Fernando Pires Hartwig, Linbo Wang, George Davey Smith +1

Background: Interpreting instrumental variable results often requires further assumptions in addition to the core assumptions of relevance, independence, and the exclusion restrict…

stat.ME2020

Average causal effect estimation via instrumental variables: the no simultaneous heterogeneity assumption

F. P. Hartwig, L. Wang, G. Davey Smith +1

Background: Instrumental variables (IVs) can be used to provide evidence as to whether a treatment X has a causal effect on an outcome Y. Even if the instrument Z satisfies the thr…