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DSC 245Introduction to Causal Inference

4 units · DSC · UC San Diego

Causal versus predictive inference, potential outcomes and randomized experiments (A/B testing), structural causal models (interventions, counterfactuals, causal diagram, do-operator, d-separation), causal structure learning, identification of causal effect, estimation of causal effect, causal discovery and inference in presence of distribution shifts, selection bias, hidden confounders, cycles, nonlinear causal mechanisms, missing values, causal representation learning.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “DSC 212 and DSC 240. Restricted to DS75 and DS76 students.”