Causal Inference in Observational Data

no code implementations • 15 Nov 2016 • Pranjul Yadav, Lisiane Prunelli, Alexander Hoff, Michael Steinbach, Bonnie Westra, Vipin Kumar, Gyorgy Simon

We also evaluated our causal rule mining framework on the Electronic Health Records (EHR) data of a large cohort of patients from Mayo Clinic and showed that the patterns we extracted are sufficiently rich to explain the controversial findings in the medical literature regarding the effect of a class of cholesterol drugs on Type-II Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM).

Causal Inference