(David Rawlinson) Everyone wants to understand why things happen, and what would happen if you did things differently. You’ve probably read that statistics can only tell you if things are correlated, or associated, and this explains nothing about cause and effect. But in fact there’s a process called Causal Inference which does answer these questions, can tell you if A causes B and more importantly, can tell you what would happen, if… This talk will help you to frame and tackle these questions using your data and some popular Python libraries.

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Sun Aug 20 13:30:00 2023 at Hall C (Plenary)