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What problems might we encounter when using regression to measure causal effects?

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Regression is the Statistical method of detecting exact relationship between dependent variable and independent variable(or variables) i.e. it measures how changing independent variable(or variables) affects the dependent variable and quantifies the actual relationship between two using correlation coefficient.

Regression cares about correlation relationships but correlation does not necessary mean causation but causation implies correlation. For eg, Age and shoe size are correlated but age does not causes increase in shoe size. Causal analysis tries to estimate the effect of interventions and measures how X affects Y. A cause is the variable that produces an event or condition and effect is that variable which is result of that event.

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