A characterizetion of interventional distributions in semi-markovian causal models

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1239-1244

  Tian, Jin ^a   Kang, Changsung ^a   Pearl, Judea ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORK; INEQUALITIES; SEMI-MARKOVIAN CAUSAL MODELS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33750742243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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