Skip to content

Author

O. Saarela

We have 1 of 220 papers

We haven’t gathered this author’s papers yet. Follow them and we’ll fetch their work.

Not the right person? Other researchers publish under this name.

Preprint Aug 2026

Graph-based causal variance decompositions: When"variance explained"means causation

Recursive application of the law of total variance decomposes the marginal variance of an outcome into components attributed to explanatory variables and a residual component. The resulting decomposition depends on the chosen conditioning order, and its components do not in general have causal interpretations. We devel...

O. Saarela, J. Karvanen · 0 citations

We use cookies to run the site and, with your consent, for analytics and to show ads. See our Cookie Policy.