@article{PJ2025114002,
title = {Stop adjusting for anything: How the backdoor and adjustment criteria empower causal human-centric research},
author = {Pan, Jian and Favero, Matteo and Sonta, Andrew and Sun, Ruiji and Damrath, Julia and Schweiker, Marcel},
journal = {Building and Environment},
pages = {114002},
year = {2025},
issn = {0360-1323},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.114002}
}Supplementary material
Stop adjusting for anything : How the backdoor and adjustment criteria empower causal human-centric research
Preface
This notebook is specifically designed to serve as a detailed guide for the examples with synthetic data that have been discussed in the paper titled “Stop adjusting for anything: How the backdoor and adjustment criteria empower causal human-centric research”. The primary objective of this notebook is to provide a comprehensive and practical explanation of the entire modelling process, along with detailed insights into the various methodologies and techniques employed in the process.
Our aim is to provide a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners at all levels of proficiency —both experienced and inexperienced. By providing a clear and practical explanation of the modelling methods and techniques used in the examples, we hope to enable researchers and practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.
However, it is important to note that this notebook is not intended and should not be used as a set of recipes to solve problems. Instead, it should be viewed as a map to guide researchers through the modelling process.
Contributors and license
This document was written by Matteo Favero and Jian Pan with feedback from Andrew Sonta, Ruiji Sun, and Marcel Schweiker.
This work is openly licensed via a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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The corresponding primary article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.114002.