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To determine if a causal loop is reinforcing or balancing, one can start with an assumption, e.g. "Variable 1 increases" and follow the loop around. The loop is: reinforcing if, after going around the loop, one ends up with the same result as the initial assumption. balancing if the result contradicts the initial assumption.
Judea Pearl defines a causal model as an ordered triple ,, , where U is a set of exogenous variables whose values are determined by factors outside the model; V is a set of endogenous variables whose values are determined by factors within the model; and E is a set of structural equations that express the value of each endogenous variable as a function of the values of the other variables in U ...
Fig. 1: Causal loop diagram. In system dynamics this is described by a circles of causality (Fig. 1) as a system consisting of two feedback loops. One is the balancing feedback loop B1 of the corrective action, the second is the reinforcing feedback loop R2 of the unintended consequences. These influence the problem with a delay and therefore ...
A causal loop diagram of growth and underinvestment The growth and underinvestment archetype is one of the common system archetype patterns defined as part of the system dynamics discipline. System dynamics is an approach which strives to understand, describe and optimize nonlinear behaviors of complex systems over time, using tools such as ...
The causal loop diagram below shows escalation archetype as a single reinforcing loop. It can be read simply as that more action done by X creates bigger results of action done by X. The bigger results of X, the bigger difference between X and Y results. The bigger difference means more action by Y and more action by Y leads to bigger result of Y.
A causal diagram consists of a set of nodes which may or may not be interlinked by arrows. Arrows between nodes denote causal relationships with the arrow pointing from the cause to the effect. There exist several forms of causal diagrams including Ishikawa diagrams, directed acyclic graphs, causal loop diagrams, [10] and why-because graphs (WBGs
This is a list of causal mapping software. Causal mapping software enables users to create and/or work with causal maps: qualitative networks of interconnected nodes in which each connection represents a causal link. Software and services for concept mapping can also be used for causal mapping if they allow the creation of directed links.
Figure 1: Unidentified model with latent variables (and ) shown explicitly Figure 2: Unidentified model with latent variables summarized. Figure 1 is a causal graph that represents this model specification. Each variable in the model has a corresponding node or vertex in the graph.