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| author | Luo, Shanshan Yu, Yixuan Liu, Chunchen Xie, Feng Geng, Zhi |
| author_facet | Luo, Shanshan Yu, Yixuan Liu, Chunchen Xie, Feng Geng, Zhi |
| contents | To evaluate a single cause of a binary effect, Dawid et al. (2014) defined the probability of causation, while Pearl (2015) defined the probabilities of necessity and sufficiency. For assessing the multiple correlated causes of a binary effect, Lu et al. (2023) defined the posterior causal effects based on post-treatment variables. In many scenarios, outcomes are continuous, simply binarizing them and applying previous methods may result in information loss or biased conclusions. To address this limitation, we propose a series of posterior causal estimands for retrospectively evaluating multiple correlated causes from a continuous effect, including posterior intervention effects, posterior total causal effects, and posterior natural direct effects. Under the assumptions of sequential ignorability, monotonicity, and perfect positive rank, we show that the posterior causal estimands of interest are identifiable and present the corresponding identification equations. We also provide a simple but effective estimation procedure and establish the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators. An artificial hypertension example and a real developmental toxicity dataset are employed to illustrate our method. |
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| spellingShingle | Assessing the causes of continuous effects by posterior effects of causes Luo, Shanshan Yu, Yixuan Liu, Chunchen Xie, Feng Geng, Zhi Methodology To evaluate a single cause of a binary effect, Dawid et al. (2014) defined the probability of causation, while Pearl (2015) defined the probabilities of necessity and sufficiency. For assessing the multiple correlated causes of a binary effect, Lu et al. (2023) defined the posterior causal effects based on post-treatment variables. In many scenarios, outcomes are continuous, simply binarizing them and applying previous methods may result in information loss or biased conclusions. To address this limitation, we propose a series of posterior causal estimands for retrospectively evaluating multiple correlated causes from a continuous effect, including posterior intervention effects, posterior total causal effects, and posterior natural direct effects. Under the assumptions of sequential ignorability, monotonicity, and perfect positive rank, we show that the posterior causal estimands of interest are identifiable and present the corresponding identification equations. We also provide a simple but effective estimation procedure and establish the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators. An artificial hypertension example and a real developmental toxicity dataset are employed to illustrate our method. |
| title | Assessing the causes of continuous effects by posterior effects of causes |
| topic | Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05246 |