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UAI
2003
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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
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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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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
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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