Covariate Selection in Regression: A Crash Course on Good and Bad Controls
Office of Advanced Research Computing
Choosing which covariates to control for in regression models is a well-known challenge, and clear guidance on this issue is often lacking. Causal diagrams, specifically directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), offer a powerful framework for addressing this challenge. This workshop discusses the paper “A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls” (Cinelli, Forney, & Pearl, 2022),...