process_tracing_estimator: Process tracing estimator

In rdss: Companion Datasets and Functions for Research Design in the Social Sciences

Process tracing estimator

Description

Draw conclusions from a model given a query, data, and process tracing strategies

Usage

process_tracing_estimator(causal_model, query, data, strategies)

Arguments

causal_model	a model generated by CausalQueries
query	a causal query of interest
data	a single row dataset with data on nodes in the model
strategies	a vector describing sets of nodes to be examined e.g. c("X", "X-Y")

Details

See https://book.declaredesign.org/observational-causal.html#process-tracing

Value

a data.frame of estimates

Examples

process_tracing_estimator(
  CausalQueries::make_model("X -> Y"),
  "Y[X=1] > Y[X=0]",
  data.frame(X=1, Y = 1),
  "X-Y")

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