Neyman causal model or Rubin causal model?

Don Rubin (left) and Jerzy Neyman (right)

I’m at the Northwestern causal inference workshop where the statistician Don Rubin is teaching. Rubin, as you probably know if you’re reading this, is often credited as inventing the potential outcomes framework. But if you dig deeply into Rubin’s writings, or read interviews with him, he is constantly referencing a 1923 publication by Jerzy Neyman. …