The Blessings of Multiple Causes: A Reply to Ogburn et al. (2019)
arXiv:1910.07320v35 citations
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This is an incremental reply addressing methodological disputes in causal inference for researchers in that field.
This paper responds to criticisms by Ogburn et al. (2019) of 'The Blessings of Multiple Causes' (Wang and Blei, 2018), arguing that claims of foundational errors and incorrect premises are unsubstantiated, with no concrete results or numbers provided.
Ogburn et al. (2019, arXiv:1910.05438) discuss "The Blessings of Multiple Causes" (Wang and Blei, 2018, arXiv:1805.06826). Many of their remarks are interesting. But they also claim that the paper has "foundational errors" and that its "premise is...incorrect." These claims are not substantiated. There are no foundational errors; the premise is correct.