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PS9591: Regressions and Causal Inference

1 Lecture 1: What is Causal Inference?

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  • 2 What is Causal Inference? (link)

1.1 Introduction

On this first week, we introduce ‘causal inference’ as a concept of interest, and what are the main problems of determining causality from observational data. No fancy code for this week.

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