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Re:When Dying Patients Want Unproven Drugs by youainti on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:31AM (#36400095)
Bayesian approaches alone are not enough to establish causality. I say this as someone using bayesian approaches in a causal analysis. Causality is intricately linked to the processes that underly how data is generated. Two different processes can lead to the same probabilistic results.
Re:When Dying Patients Want Unproven Drugs by mitthrowaway2 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:46PM (#36406800)
You don't necessarily need to establish causality in one grand step; it can still be effective to accumulate evidence of causality, even if this evidence cannot distinguish between other competing non-causal explanations.