Identification of joint interventional distributions in recursive semi-Markovian causal models

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1219-1226

  Shpitser, Ilya ^a   Pearl, Judea ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED GRAPH; IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS; JOINT INTERVENTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMI-MARKOVIAN CAUSAL MODELS;

GRAPH THEORY; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33750742436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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