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Causal inference in statistics: An overview

Statistics SurveysVol. 3 (2009) 96 146 ISSN: 1935-7516 inference in statistics: An overview Judea PearlComputer Science DepartmentUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 review presents empirical researcherswith recent advancesin Causal inference , and stresses the paradigmatic shifts that must be un-dertaken in moving from traditional statistical analysis to Causal analysis ofmultivariate data. Special emphasis is placed on the assumptions that un-derly all Causal inferences, the languages used in formulating those assump-tions, the conditional nature of all Causal and counterfactual claims, andthe methods that have been developed for the assessment of such advances are illustrated using a general theory of causation basedon the Structural Causal Model (SCM) described inPearl(2000a), whichsubsumes and unifies other approaches to causation, and provides a coher-ent mathematical foundation for the analysis of causes and particular, the paper surveys the development of mathematical tools forinferring (from a combination of data and assumptions) answers to threetypes of Causal queries.

∗Portions of this paper are based on my book Causality (Pearl, 2000, 2nd edition 2009), and have benefited appreciably from conversations with readers, students, and colleagues. †This research was supported in parts by an ONR grant #N000-14-09-1-0665. ‡This paper was accepted by Elja Arjas, Executive Editor for the Bernoulli. 96 ...

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