Assessing Causes for Individuals: Comments on Fienberg, Faigman, and Dawid
Sociological Methods & Research
Published online on January 26, 2014
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.