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AAAI
2011
12 years 4 months ago
Relational Blocking for Causal Discovery
Blocking is a technique commonly used in manual statistical analysis to account for confounding variables. However, blocking is not currently used in automated learning algorithms...
Matthew J. Rattigan, Marc E. Maier, David Jensen
CORR
2012
Springer
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12 years 2 days ago
A Logical Characterization of Constraint-Based Causal Discovery
We present a novel approach to constraintbased causal discovery, that takes the form of straightforward logical inference, applied to a list of simple, logical statements about ca...
Tom Claassen, Tom Heskes
AAAI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Causal Models of Relational Domains
Methods for discovering causal knowledge from observational data have been a persistent topic of AI research for several decades. Essentially all of this work focuses on knowledge...
Marc Maier, Brian Taylor, Huseyin Oktay, David Jen...
KDD
2003
ACM
175views Data Mining» more  KDD 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Time and sample efficient discovery of Markov blankets and direct causal relations
Data Mining with Bayesian Network learning has two important characteristics: under broad conditions learned edges between variables correspond to causal influences, and second, f...
Ioannis Tsamardinos, Constantin F. Aliferis, Alexa...
COGSCI
2004
120views more  COGSCI 2004»
13 years 4 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik