Berkeley Professor Peng Ding Releases Free 490-Page Causal Inference Textbook on arXiv
udmrzn · x · 2026-09-12
UC Berkeley statistics professor Peng Ding has compiled seven years of lecture notes into A First Course in Causal Inference, a free 490-page book available on arXiv, with companion R code and datasets on Harvard Dataverse under CC BY 4.0.
- Written for both undergrad (Stat 156) and grad (Stat 256) courses, requiring only basics in probability, statistical inference, and linear/logistic regression.
- Opens with the Yule-Simpson paradox, then covers identification, estimation, and longitudinal data, with new homework problems added.
- Suggested companion: Judea Pearl's Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer — one teaches the how, the other the why.
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