Automatic identification of quasi-experimental designs for discovering causal knowledge

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 372-380

  Jensen, David D ^a   Fast, Andrew S ^a   Taylor, Brian J ^a   Maier, Marc E ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal discovery; Quasi experimental design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATIONS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CAUSAL DISCOVERY; DATABASE SCHEMATA; EXPERIMENTAL CONTROLS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FIRST-ORDER LOGIC; JOINT MODELING; LARGE DATUM; MOVIE MAKINGS; NATURAL EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN;

AUTOMATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MINING; THEOREM PROVING;

STATISTICS;

EID: 65449130495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1401890.1401938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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