Visualizing the World of Causal Inference

This interactive mind map presents a structured overview of methods for treatment effect estimation in causal inference grouped by its core identification strategy.

Click on each node to learn more about each method. Use it as a learning aid, a reference guide, or simply a way to explore the landscape of modern causal inference from a statistical viewpoint.

Glossary

• PS: Propensity Score
• FE: Fixed Effects
• RE: Random Effects
• ML: Machine Learning
• DiD: Difference-in-Differences
• IV: Instrumental Variables
• SC: Synthetic Control
• GMM: Generalized Method of Moments
• TWFE: Two-Way Fixed Effects
• ATE: Average Treatment Effect
• CATE: Conditional Average Treatment Effect
• QTE: Quantile Treatment Effect
• CF: Control Function
• 2SLS: Two-Stage Least Squares
• RD: Regression Discontinuity