Differentiable Causal Backdoor Discovery

The following repository contains all code and results to reproduce results in the AISTATS 2020 paper: Differentiable Causal Backdoor Discovery.

Repo sructure and content

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|_ code
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|____ *.jl --> contains code to run the full procedure to compute results (all Figures)
|____ real_world_nhs_dataset
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|______ nhs_data_smaller_var.csv --> contains NHS dataset used in paper
|______ *.jl --> contains code to run full procedure to compute paper results (Table 1)
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|____ omega_point_* --> contains datasets, and scatter plots generated for simulation code (see results/outputfiles for scatter plot, for each setup of interest). Included for ease of 
|     comparison and reproduction. Will be regenerated running the code above (see notebooks for clarification).
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|_ notebooks (for ease of use, refer to these for pipeline of running the full code, contained in the above code folder)
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|____ ATE_scatter_histplots
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|______ Compute_ATEs_produce_scatterplots_julia.ipynb --> notebook to reproduce scatterplots. Run first (note: need to run    
|       code in parallel as stated on top of notebook, ideally on many-core server first). Resulting figures will also appear 
|       in respective omega_point_* folder for each setting.
|______ Histplots+Entner_comparison_python.ipynb --> notebook to reproduce Entner baseline and histograms in paper. Run second.
|______ histplots --> this folder contains the resuling histogram plots (on top of them showing in above notebook).

Code dependencies

• ProgressMeter
• StatsBase
• Statistics
• TexTables
• DataFrames
• Gadfly
• Compose
• PyCall
• ForwardDiff
• Random
• Printf
• LinearAlgebra
• Distributions
• Optim
• PenaltyFunctions
• GLM
• Colors
• ArgParse

to install in one go, in Julia REPL

import Pkg

Pkg.add(["ProgressMeter", "StatsBase", "Statistics", "TexTables", "DataFrames", "Gadfly", "Compose", "PyCall", "ForwardDiff", "Random", "Printf", "LinearAlgebra", "Distributions", "Optim", "PenaltyFunctions", "GLM", "Colors", "ArgParse"])

If the above fails for compatability reasons, try removing "TexTables" from this list, and installing it seperately with the following:

Pkg.add("TexTables")