Advancing Counterfactual Inference through Nonlinear Quantile Regression

arXiv:2306.05751v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The capacity to address counterfactual "what if" inquiries is crucial for understanding and making use of causal influences. Traditional counterfactual inference, under Pearls' counterfactual framework, typically depends on having access to or estimating a structural causal model. Yet, in practice, this causal model is often unknown and might be challenging to identify. Hence, this paper aims to perform reliable counterfactual inference based solely on observational data and the (learned) qualitative causal structure, without necessitating a …

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