Learning Probabilities of Causation from Finite Population Data
This paper deals with the problem of learning the probabilities of causation of subpopulations given finite population data. The tight bounds of three basic probabilities of causation, the probability of necessity and sufficiency (PNS), the probability of sufficiency (PS), and the probability of necessity (PN), were derived by Tian and Pearl. However, obtaining the bounds for each subpopulation requires experimental and observational distributions of each subpopulation, which is usually impractical to estimate given finite population data. We propose a machine learning model that helps to learn the bounds of the probabilities of causation for subpopulations given finite population data. We further show by a simulated study that the machine learning model is able to learn the bounds of PNS for 32768 subpopulations with only knowing roughly 500 of them from the finite population data.
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