In a recent paper published in the Journal of Causal Inference, Philip Dawid has described a graphical causal model based on decision diagrams. This article describes how single-world intervention graphs (SWIGs) relate to these diagrams. In this way, a correspondence is established between Dawid's approach and those based on potential outcomes such as Robins' Finest Fully Randomized Causally Interpreted Structured Tree Graphs. In more detail, a reformulation of Dawid's theory is given that is essentially equivalent to his proposal and isomorphic to SWIGs.
翻译:在近期发表于《因果推断杂志》的一篇论文中,Philip Dawid 描述了一种基于决策图的图因果模型。本文阐述了单一世界干预图(SWIGs)与这些决策图之间的关联,从而建立了 Dawid 方法与基于潜在结果的方法(如 Robins 的最精细完全随机化因果解释结构化树图)之间的对应关系。具体而言,本文对 Dawid 理论进行了重新表述,该表述本质上与其原始提议等价,且与 SWIGs 同构。