A set of statistical techniques aimed at achieving causal inference from (mainly) observational data. It rests on relatively strong assumptions.
Glossary
Causal modelling/inference
Glossary
Summary (bullet points)
Given appropriate data, it is sometimes possible to derive causal inferences from observational (non-experimental) data
Classification (s)
Research term
Classification (s)
Statistics
Foundational paper (s)
Spirtes, P. Introduction to causal inference. Journal of Machine Learning Research 11 (2010) 1643-1662