Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science

JM Hofman, DJ Watts, S Athey, F Garip, TL Griffiths… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Computational social science is more than just large repositories of digital data and the
computational methods needed to construct and analyse them. It also represents a …

Statistical modeling: the three cultures

A Daoud, D Dubhashi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.04570, 2020 - arxiv.org
Two decades ago, Leo Breiman identified two cultures for statistical modeling. The data
modeling culture (DMC) refers to practices aiming to conduct statistical inference on one or …

Adjusting for confounders with text: Challenges and an empirical evaluation framework for causal inference

G Weld, P West, M Glenski, D Arbour… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Causal inference studies using textual social media data can provide actionable insights on
human behavior. Making accurate causal inferences with text requires controlling for …

MPCSL-a modular pipeline for causal structure learning

J Huegle, C Hagedorn, M Perscheid… - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The examination of causal structures is crucial for data scientists in a variety of machine
learning application scenarios. In recent years, the corresponding interest in methods of …

GRFlift: uplift modeling for multi-treatment within GMV constraints

J Yang, W Wang, Y Dong, X He, L Jia, H Chen… - Applied Intelligence, 2023 - Springer
As a primary goal of predictive analytics, uplift modeling is used to estimate what impact a
specific action or treatment will have on an outcome. In convention, the treatment is …

The potential of benchmark challenges in the social sciences

P Pankowska, A Mendrik, T Emery… - Social Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social scientists aim to create explanations of the world. For each social phenomenon,
scientists have proposed a myriad of theories to explain its working mechanisms …

[PDF][PDF] Causal discovery in practice: Non-parametric conditional independence testing and tooling for causal discovery

J Hügle - 2023 - researchgate.net
Abstract Knowledge about causal structures is crucial for decision support in various
domains. For example, in discrete manufacturing, identifying the root causes of failures and …