Identifying Interventional Joint Distributions via Extended Bridge Functions

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author Schott, Constantin
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contents Existing identification results in proximal causal inference often focus on marginal interventional distributions using standard outcome or treatment bridge functions. These methods do not generally identify joint interventional distributions that contain all proxy variables that were used to define the corresponding bridge functions. In many applications, however, these joint interventional distributions are a natural target of interest. We introduce extended bridge functions and derive new identification results for joint interventional distributions that may retain all relevant proxy variables. We then apply these results to proximal identification algorithms, where interventional kernels naturally arise as intermediate objects, yielding a generalized framework based on kernel operations.
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spellingShingle Identifying Interventional Joint Distributions via Extended Bridge Functions
Schott, Constantin
Methodology
62D20 (Primary) 62H22, 62P10 (Secondary)
Existing identification results in proximal causal inference often focus on marginal interventional distributions using standard outcome or treatment bridge functions. These methods do not generally identify joint interventional distributions that contain all proxy variables that were used to define the corresponding bridge functions. In many applications, however, these joint interventional distributions are a natural target of interest. We introduce extended bridge functions and derive new identification results for joint interventional distributions that may retain all relevant proxy variables. We then apply these results to proximal identification algorithms, where interventional kernels naturally arise as intermediate objects, yielding a generalized framework based on kernel operations.
title Identifying Interventional Joint Distributions via Extended Bridge Functions
topic Methodology
62D20 (Primary) 62H22, 62P10 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20007