Causally Colored Reflections on Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”

DSA ADS Course, 2022

Statistical Analysis, Data Interpretation, Causal Analysis, Causality, Data Fusion, Missing Data, Counterfactuals

Discuss Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”  in light of recent advances in machine learning and causal inference and the separation between the data-fitting and data-interpretation components of statistical modeling.

July, 2021

Causally Colored Reflections on Leo Breiman’s “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures” - Abstract

This note provides a re-assessment of Breiman’s contributions to the art of statistical modeling, in light of recent advances in machine learning and causal inference. It highlights the crisp separation between the data-fitting and data-interpretation components of statistical modeling.