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Comment by tomrod

2 years ago

This highlights what Judea Pearl's causal framework gets at: Pr(Y|X) versus Pr(Y|do(X)), where we can set early.

Causality isn't easy to establish. Correlation is insufficient.

Note, too, I am unfamiliar with the literature cited by the Infoanimatedgraphic.

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