Qualitative variables take symbolic values, such as hot, shoe, Europe or France. Sometimes, the values may be arranged in layers or levels of detail. For instance, the variable pla...
Abstract. We propose a new algorithm for estimating the causal structure that underlies the observed dependence among n (n ≥ 4) binary variables X1, . . . , Xn. Our inference pri...
Independent Variable Group Analysis (IVGA) is a method for grouping dependent variables together while keeping mutually independent or weakly dependent variables in separate group...
Abstract. Often, qualitative values have an ordering, such as (veryshort, short, medium-height, tall) or a hierarchical level, such as (TheWorld, Europe, Spain, Madrid), which are ...