This paper reviews existing work in software engineering that applies statistical causal inference methods. These methods aim at estimating causal effects from observational data. The review covers 32 papers published between 2010 and 2022. Our results show that the application of statistical causal inference methods is relatively recent and that the corresponding research community remains relatively fragmented.

翻译：本文综述了软件工程领域中应用统计因果推断方法的相关研究。这些方法旨在从观测数据中估计因果效应。本综述涵盖了2010年至2022年间发表的32篇论文。研究结果表明，统计因果推断方法的应用相对较新，且相关研究领域仍较为分散。