학술논문

Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals
Document Type
Working Paper
Source
Subject
Statistics - Methodology
Mathematics - Statistics Theory
62D20, 62C05
Language
Abstract
This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approach is dangerously misguided and should not be used in practice.
Comment: 15 pages. Submitted to Journal of Causal Inference