critique
causal inference
Cause-and-effect link read into a chart without the data establishing it.
inférence causale
Lien de cause à effet attribué à ce que montre un graphique sans que les données l'établissent.
Au sens de Lisnic et al. (2023) : l'erreur de raisonnement et non le champ de la statistique qui étudie l'inférence causale. Souvent associée à la sélection biaisée.
Classification
- critique
Attestation
Sources (8)
10 occurrences in the corpus
- Computational statistics in data science
- French Wikipedia↗
- Lisnic et al., Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie with Charts, CHI 2023↗
- Parent, Analyse et modélisation d'agroécosystèmes, GAE-7007 course notes, Université Laval↗
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/causal-inference.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. causal inference. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/causal-inference.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-causal-inference,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {causal inference},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/causal-inference.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.