This may be of interest to those working in the area of causality .Below is cut/pasted from the email distribution for NASEM (national academy of science engineering and medicine). I attached a screen shot of the email.
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Tomorrow (oct 18, 2022) NASEM has a research book release webinar
excerpting from the email.
As part of its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the air pollutants carbon monoxide, lead, oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, ozone, and sulfur dioxide. EPA uses a "weight of evidence approach" to evaluate evidence from scientific studies and describe the causal relationships between these "criteria pollutants" and any adverse impacts on human health and on public welfare-including impacts on wildlife, water, forests, agriculture, and climate. The evaluation, called an Integrated Science Assessment, is used to inform standards setting associated with the criteria pollutants.
This report, produced at the request of EPA, describes EPAs and several other frameworks for inferring causality of health or welfare effects and the characteristics of evidence useful for forming a causal determination. The report concludes that EPA's causal framework is effective, reliable, and scientifically defensible, provided that key scientific questions are identified and a range of necessary expertise is engaged. More transparency in how EPA integrates evidence could improve confidence in EPA's determinations, and more guidance is needed in EPA's framework on how evidence should be examined for vulnerable groups (e.g., human sub-populations) and sensitive ecosystems or species
LINKS
the livestream link
https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/10-18-2022/assessing-causality-from-a-multidisciplinary-evidence-base-for-national-ambient-air-quality-standards-pre-publication-report-release-public-briefing?utm_source=NASEM+Math+and+Statistics&utm_campaign=085f0f9ad7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_14_05_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa16bc02ed-085f0f9ad7-564182182minus the tracking link
link
https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/10-18-2022/assessing-causality-from-a-multidisciplinary-evidence-base-for-national-ambient-air-quality-standards-pre-publication-report-release-public-briefingand in advance of the webinar The NASEM has a downloadable book, excerpting (and the link to the book here)
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26612/advancing-the-framework-for-assessing-causality-of-health-and-welfare-effects-to-inform-national-ambient-air-quality-standard-reviews?utm_source=NASEM+Math+and+Statistics&utm_campaign=085f0f9ad7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_10_14_05_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa16bc02ed-085f0f9ad7-564182182minus the tracking link link
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26612/advancing-the-framework-for-assessing-causality-of-health-and-welfare-effects-to-inform-national-ambient-air-quality-standard-reviews------------------------------
Chris Barker, Ph.D.
2022 Statistical Consulting Section
Chair-elect
Consultant and
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics
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"In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds."
-Steve Lacy
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