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Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by shurtler on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:36AM (#18111151)
You will benefit from reading Pearl/Glymour/Jewell: Causal Inference in Statistics. A Primer

(The contrast to Imbens and Rubin is crazy)

Re:Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expe... by meanmrmustard92 on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:38PM (#18118439)
Thanks; been meaning to. I've not seen a good exposition of what benefit the DAG way of doing Causal Inference has over the Potential Outcomes Framework. Morgan and Winship (another good textbook) tries, but I didn't really buy it. I guess I have to hear it from the horse's mouth.