pqp 0.3.0

Subroutines for structural causal modeling

PQP

The name pqp is short for Pourquoi pas?. This phrase is French for why not?, because "Why not?" was the question we asked ourselves when we found there was no maintained, open-source package for causal identification in Python. With this package, we provide a correct, performant, and intuitive implementation of Shpitser's ID algorithm for causal graphs, and we hope soon to provide more useful functionality to support causal inference in the structural causal modeling framework.

Installation

The package can be installed from PyPi using pip:

pip install pqp

Basic Usage

from pqp.graph import Graph
from pqp.variable import make_vars

# create variables
x, y, z = make_vars("xyz")

# the backdoor model
g = Graph([
    x <= z,
    y <= z,
    y <= x,
])

# identification
estimand = g.idc([y], [x])
print(estimand)

# >>> Σ_(z) [ [P(z) * P(z, x, y) / P(z, x)] ]

Further Reading

For more information, see the documentation at https://leo-ware.github.io/pqp/.

The source code is available at https://github.com/leo-ware/pqp.

About

This package was created by Leo Ware as part of his undergraduate capstone project at Minerva University.