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UAI
2003
15 years 22 days ago
Strong Faithfulness and Uniform Consistency in Causal Inference
A fundamental question in causal inference is whether it is possible to reliably infer the manipulation effects from observational data. There are a variety of senses of asymptot...
Jiji Zhang, Peter Spirtes
UAI
1993
15 years 21 days ago
Causal Independence for Knowledge Acquisition and Inference
I introduce a temporal belief-network representation of causal independence that a knowledge engineer can use to elicit probabilistic models. Like the current, atemporal belief-ne...
David Heckerman
METMBS
2003
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Causal Explorer: A Causal Probabilistic Network Learning Toolkit for Biomedical Discovery
Causal Probabilistic Networks (CPNs), (a.k.a. Bayesian Networks, or Belief Networks) are well-established representations in biomedical applications such as decision support system...
Constantin F. Aliferis, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Alexa...
IJAR
2008
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14 years 11 months ago
Estimation of causal effects using linear non-Gaussian causal models with hidden variables
The task of estimating causal effects from non-experimental data is notoriously difficult and unreliable. Nevertheless, precisely such estimates are commonly required in many fiel...
Patrik O. Hoyer, Shohei Shimizu, Antti J. Kerminen...
AAAI
2011
13 years 11 months ago
Controlling Selection Bias in Causal Inference
Selection bias, caused by preferential exclusion of samples from the data, is a major obstacle to valid causal and statistical inferences; it cannot be removed by randomized exper...
Elias Bareinboim, Judea Pearl