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People generally don’t hand out multimillion dollar assets to do controlled experiments on, and even then the “control” would be relatively weak since there are
by 542458 6y ago
People generally don’t hand out multimillion dollar assets to do controlled experiments on, and even then the “control” would be relatively weak since there are so many uncontrolled variables.
Does statistical causal analysis work when there are this many variables? Feels like that would just be essentially a case study again.
- eeZah7Ux 6y ago> Does statistical causal analysis work when there are this many variables? Yes, that's the whole point. It works when you can "simulate" experiments by looking at a large number of events. E.g. DNA evolution in genetics, drug testing in medicine, studying failure modes in aeronautics...
- jonny_eh 6y agoI guess you could watch The Apprentice shudder