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The extreme (max and min values) of $d$ are referred to as the "query bounds on the causal response", and serve as the extrema of our quantity $d$.
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Problems of this type are what `causalprog` refers to as "causal problems".
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`causalprog` provides utility for setting up causal problems [using DAGs](docs/theory/glossary.md#abbreviations), which can then be solved via your favourite stochastic optimiser and minimisation algorithm (though the package also provides a few solvers itself to help).
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`causalprog` provides utility for setting up causal problems [using DAGs](docs/theory/index.md#abbreviations), which can then be solved via your favourite stochastic optimiser and minimisation algorithm (though the package also provides a few solvers itself to help).
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## Getting Started
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## Causal Models
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Causal models are the central building blocks around which `causalprog` operates.
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At the highest level, one can just think of _a causal model_ as some black-box object $G$ that takes some data point $x\in\mathcal{D}_{eval}\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ and predicts an outcome $G(x)\in\mathbb{R}^M$ based on $x$.
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At the highest level; one can just think of _a causal model_ as some black-box object $G$ that is aware of the existence of some variables $X_i$, and is able to make predictions about quantities derived from the $X_i$ subject to how it has been programmed.
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Here "how it has been programmed" is an analogy for "how the model has been tuned / trained".
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### Definition
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