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Assessing Causes for Individuals: Comments on Fienberg, Faigman, and Dawid

Sociological Methods & Research

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Abstract

In commenting on Fienberg, Faigman, and Dawid, the author contrasts the proposed parameter, the probability of causation, to other parameters in the causal inference literature, specifically the probability of necessity discussed by Pearl, and Robins and Greenland, and Pearl’s probability of sufficiency. This article closes with a few comments about the difficulties of estimation of parameters related to individual causation.