Before revision: The potential outcomes approach to causal inference, most commonly known as the Rubin Causal Model (RCM) , is a framework that allows to define the causal effect of a treatment (or "intervention ") as a contrast of potential outcomes , to discuss assumptions enabling to identify such causal effects from available data, as well as to develop methods for estimating causal effects under these assumptions .
After revision: The potential outcomes approach to causal inference, most commonly known as the Rubin Causal Model (RCM) , is a framework that allows to define the causal effect of an intervention as a contrast of potential outcomes , to discuss assumptions enabling to identify such causal effects from available data, as well as to develop methods for estimating causal effects under these assumptions .