Causal Density Functions
We study the full density ratio between a specified intervention regime $P_a$ and an observational regime $P_0$, $ρ_a=dP_a/dP_0$, under the prerequisite $P_a\ll P_0$. We call the regime-indexed ratio a causal density function when $P_a$ is an identified or directly observed interventional law. The underlying Radon-Nikodym derivative and the identity $ \mathbb{E}_{a}[f(Z)] = \mathbb{E}_{0}\!\left[f(Z)ρ_a(Z)\right] $ are classical importance weighting, not new identification results. Our narrower question is whether retaining the entire pointwise ratio is useful as a reusable diagnostic across several downstream functionals. We evaluate a two-density plug-in baseline through held-out moment transport and overlap stress tests on synthetic and perturbation data. We also report a pairwise graph-scoring heuristic as a negative result: its F1 is \(0.10\) on a synthetic DAG, \(0.12\) on Sachs, and \(0.33\) on a multi-regime chain. These experiments do not establish an estimation advantage over direct density-ratio, inverse-probability, Riesz, or doubly robust methods; they instead delimit what the pointwise ratio target and the present plug-in estimator do and do not provide.
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