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Many detailed applications are included, with special focus on practical aspects for the empirical researcher. Prepared with assistance from samantha cook, elizabeth stuart, and jim greiner. Donald bruce rubin born december 22, 1943 is an emeritus professor of statistics at harvard university, where he chaired the department of statistics for years. Machine learning methods for estimating heterogeneous causal. Review of the book \causal inference for statistics, social, and biomedical sciences by g. The book focuses on the most widely used statistical framework for causal inference. Donald b rubin most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature. What is the best textbook for learning causal inference. The rubin causal model has also been connected to instrumental variables angrist, imbens, and rubin, 1996 and other techniques for causal inference.
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