Our foray into causal analysis is not yet complete. Until we define the methods of causal inference, we can't get to the deeper insights that causal analysis can provide. This article details many of ...

Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...

Root-cause analysis is core to problem-solving across many fields. From hospitals searching for patient safety issues to engineers diagnosing faults in complex machinery, finding the source of a ...

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...

The surge in enterprise AI has fueled interest in causal analysis. In this piece, I explore the threads that bind cause and effect - and how they can be applied across a range of industry scenarios.

This paper describes threats to making valid causal inferences about pandemic impacts on student learning based on cross-year comparisons of average test scores. The paper uses Spring 2021 test score ...

Robin J. Boyd, Martin Harvey, David B. Roy, Tony Barber, Karen A. Haysom, Craig R. Macadam, Roger K. A. Morris, Carolyn Palmer, Stephen Palmer, Chris D. Preston, Pam Taylor, Robert Ward, Stuart G.

Hypertension is among the leading cardiovascular diseases. Despite extensive research, evidence concerning the relationship between long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter and hypertension ...