Rubin causal model
Modelo causal de Rubin
- Date
- 1923-1974 · confidence medium
- Place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Jerzy Neyman formulated the potential outcomes framework in his 1923 thesis for randomized experiments; Donald Rubin generalized it in 1974 to observational and experimental studies, giving the model its name.
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Statistical framework for analyzing cause and effect based on potential outcomes, initiated by Jerzy Neyman in 1923 for randomized experiments and generalized by Donald Rubin in 1974 to observational studies.
What it led to
- Methodological standard in econometrics and epidemiology for causal inference
- Development of propensity score matching
- Formalization of randomized trials as the causal benchmark