Finding a causal ordering via independent component analysis

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3278-3293

  Shimizu, Shohei ^a,b   Hyvärinen, Aapo ^a   Hoyer, Patrik O ^a   Kano, Yutaka ^b  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Independence; Independent component analysis; Non experimental data; Non normality

Indexed keywords

MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CAUSAL INFERENCE; INDEPENDENCE; NON-EXPERIMENTAL DATA; NON-NORMALITY;

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646554850     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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