1.1 - Intro and Outline of A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference

In this part of the Introduction to Causal Inference course, we introduce and outline the first talk of the course: "A Brief Introduction to Causal Inference." Please post questions in the YouTube comments section.

[hantiansu]

Thanks for sharing. The course is amazing!

[Gabriel-ptci]

Amazing course: very insightful and well organized. Congrats to the teacher for this and for his communicating skills. Thank you very much for making this free course and good luck!

[scr-rinne]

I would like to ask a question, for example, I have monthly statistical data of a city, which is used to make a regression connection with the disaster data that occurred in the city. Can causal inference be used here?

[amins]

I have a general question. What are the differences between propensity scores like IPW and regression models?

[enxx]

Thank you very very much!!:)) Immediate subscription

[souravdey]

I have a confusion that I want to clear.
I am perfectly clear on the assertion that "correlation does not imply causation".
But I want to know at a fundamental level what does causation imply? (This question is fundamentally different from the similar sounding but completely reverse question: What implies causation?, Which is what is attempted to be answered in these lectures; that is how to identify causal effects)
When you have found the causal effects, what does it tell you?
Does it tell you that A causes B, given such and such circumstances?
Does it mean that we can assert a one to one correspondence between B and A.
For example, if we found out that taking the pill causes the headache to go away, does it mean that taking the pill will always make the headache go away, or not taking the pill will never make the headache go away, if everything else remain the same?
Does A causes B imply that P(B|A)=1 under a specific set of conditions?
Does it imply some physical link between the 2 events, is it real physical causality?
I do not know if I am able to clearly ask what I intend to know and if the question sounds dumb. But I really need to wrap my head around the basics.
I am a student at Graduate School of Frontier Sciences under University of Tokyo.
Thank you.

[hariharansubramanian]

Would it be possible to make a udemy course out of this?