Can we believe the DAGs? A comment on the relationship between causal DAGs and mechanisms
Can we believe the DAGs? A comment on the relationship between causal DAGs and mechanisms
Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) play a large role in the modern approach to causal inference. DAGs describe the relationship between measurements taken at various discrete times including the effect of interventions. The causal mechanisms, on the other hand, would naturally be assumed to be a continuous process operating over time …