MEANING
Estimating whether and how changing an exposure or treatment would change an outcome.
Use it for
Reasoning about whether a change in treatment actually causes a change in outcome.Use for methods or arguments that estimate cause-and-effect relationships from observed or experimental data.
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The study could not support causal inference because the treatment group differed systematically from the control group.
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- causal inference
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