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Clarity comments on Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 22 December 2015 11:27:37PM 1 point [-]

I am not following your mixture model idea. For every data point you know if it comes from the RCT or observational study. You don't need uncertainty about treatment assignment. What you need is figuring out how to massage observational data to get causal conclusions (e.g. what I think about all day long).

If you have specific observational data you want to look at, email me if you want to chat more.

Comment author: Clarity 24 December 2015 12:37:22PM *  0 points [-]

what I think about all day long

You specialise in identifying the determinants of biases in causal inference? Just curious :) Interesting

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 24 December 2015 05:27:45PM 2 points [-]

And how to make those biases go away, yes.