Citation

Rose RA. J. Fam. Violence 2019; 34(8): 719-722.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10896-019-00080-0

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In this commentary I respond to Lewis (2019) and Lanier (2019), building on their critiques and ideas, offering some additional thoughts about the dissemination of the Campbell, Rubin, and Pearl causal frameworks and their potential emergent value to the future of family violence research. I clarify that the central issue to credibility is the plausibility of assumptions, that some widely utilized methods often require researchers to make implausible assumptions, and that there is value to knowing and using all three frameworks.

Language: en

Keywords

Campbell causal framework; Causal inference; DAG; Directed acyclic graph; Pearl framework; Potential outcomes; Rubin causal framework