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SUBMITTER: Zhao Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7597863 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhao Qingyuan Q Hastie Trevor T
Journal of business & economic statistics : a publication of the American Statistical Association 20190705
The fields of machine learning and causal inference have developed many concepts, tools, and theory that are potentially useful for each other. Through exploring the possibility of extracting causal interpretations from black-box machine-trained models, we briefly review the languages and concepts in causal inference that may be interesting to machine learning researchers. We start with the curious observation that Friedman's partial dependence plot has exactly the same formula as Pearl's back-d ...[more]