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A. P. Dawid

不依赖反事实的因果推断

研究问题
推断施加原因可能带来的结果,是否必须依赖反事实?对于从已观察结果追问其原因,又有哪些难以由经验信息消除的歧义?
方法与思路
作者提出基于贝叶斯决策分析的替代框架,区分施加原因的效果推断与已观察效果的原因归属,并强调查询情境。
材料陈述的贡献
摘要主张前一种推断无需反事实论证,并指出原因归属即使不存在统计不确定性,也可能保留不可消除的歧义。
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应核对决策分析如何定义干预问题、需要哪些经验与建模信息,以及作者批评反事实的范围和原因归属歧义的论证。
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原文摘要

A popular approach to the framing and answering of causal questions relies on the idea of counterfactuals: Outcomes that would have been observed had the world developed differently; for example, if the patient had received a different treatment. By definition, one can never observe such quantities, nor assess empirically the validity of any modeling assumptions made about them, even though one's conclusions may be sensitive to these assumptions. Here I argue that for making inference about the likely effects of applied causes, counterfactual arguments are unnecessary and potentially misleading. An alternative approach, based on Bayesian decision analysis, is presented. Properties of counterfactuals are relevant to inference about the likely causes of observed effects, but close attention then must be given to the nature and context of the query, as well as to what conclusions can and cannot be supported empirically. In particular, even in the absence of Statistical uncertainty, such inferences may be subject to an irreducible degree of ambiguity.

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