Causal Analysis in Biomedicine and Epidemiology —— Based on Minimal Sufficient Causation

----- 生物医学和流行病学中的因果分析

ISBN: 9780824707484 出版年：2001 页码：237 Aickin, Mikel CRC Press

Orientation what is causation? naive minimal sufficient cause events and probabilities unitary algebra nontrivial implication tiny examples the one-factor model graphical elements causations structural equations the two-factor model Down Syndrome example marginalization stratification obesity example attribution indirect cause - probabilities indirect cause - structures reversal gestational diabetes example more reversal double reversal complex indirect cause dual causation - probabilities dual causation - structures paradoxical causation interventions causal covariance unitary rates functional causation the causation operator causal modelling dependence DAG theory.