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Causal inference, social networks, and chain graphs
Elizabeth L. Ogburn, Ilya Shpitser, Youjin Lee
Traditionally, statistical and causal inference on human subjects rely on the assumption that individuals are independently affected by treatments or exposures. However, recently t…
Challenges of Using Text Classifiers for Causal Inference
Zach Wood-Doughty, Ilya Shpitser, Mark Dredze
Causal understanding is essential for many kinds of decision-making, but causal inference from observational data has typically only been applied to structured, low-dimensional dat…
Estimation of Personalized Effects Associated With Causal Pathways
Razieh Nabi, Phyllis Kanki, Ilya Shpitser
The goal of personalized decision making is to map a unit's characteristics to an action tailored to maximize the expected outcome for that unit. Obtaining high-quality mappings of…
Learning Optimal Fair Policies
Razieh Nabi, Daniel Malinsky, Ilya Shpitser
Systematic discriminatory biases present in our society influence the way data is collected and stored, the way variables are defined, and the way scientific findings are put into…