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.