AI Rookies

Causal Inference

Fact

A method for finding cause-and-effect links in data.

In Plain Words

Causal inference is detective work after the office Wi‑Fi dies. It asks who unplugged the router, not who yelled first.

Doctors, economists, and policy teams use it. It stops us from calling timing a cause.

Related Concepts

SCM
SCM is a common formal way to write causal inference.

Do-Calculus
Do-Calculus helps it predict what changes after an intervention.

Regression
Regression finds statistical links, but it does not prove cause by itself.

Bayesian Network
Causal inference and Bayesian Network both use diagrams for variable links.