compute_sufficiency(): computes the sufficiency of a candidate cause for an outcome.

This function computes the sufficiency of a candidate cause for an outcome.

Usage

compute_sufficiency(var, outcome, actual_world, causal_model, d)

Arguments

var

Character string giving the candidate cause variable.

outcome

Character string giving the outcome variable.

actual_world

A named list giving the values of variables in the actual world.

causal_model

A named list of structural functions defining the causal model.

d

A data frame containing the joint probability distribution over possible worlds.

Value

A numeric value representing the sufficiency of the candidate cause for the outcome.