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Rejoinder to “Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same…and Why It Matters”

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  • Carlos Fernández-Loría

    (HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

  • Foster Provost

    (NYU Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, New York 10012; Compass Inc., New York, New York 10011)

Abstract

We thank Dean Eckles, Edward McFowland III, and Uri Shalit for their valuable commentaries ( Eckles 2022 , McFowland 2022 , Shalit 2022 ). This note takes a closer look at several of the main points they raised, especially those related to future research on data science for businesses and other organizations.

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  • Carlos Fernández-Loría & Foster Provost, 2022. "Rejoinder to “Causal Decision Making and Causal Effect Estimation Are Not the Same…and Why It Matters”," INFORMS Joural on Data Science, INFORMS, vol. 1(1), pages 23-26, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijds:v:1:y:2022:i:1:p:23-26
    DOI: 10.1287/ijds.2022.0013
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