4.20 Assumptions

• To draw causal inference we often have to rely on assumptions
• Not every design shares the same assumptions
• Often identification concerns defending independence assumption (IA) and SUTVA assumption (Keele 2015b)
• We’ll talk about these two fundamental ones (and others later)

References

Keele, Luke. 2015b. “The Statistics of Causal Inference: A View from Political Methodology.” Polit. Anal. 23 (3): 313–35.