Error probabilities for inference of causal directions

Synthese

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 409-418

  Zhang, Jiji ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian network; Causal inference; Consistency; Error probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249127277     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9295-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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