A refinement of the common cause principle

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2439-2457

  Ay, Nihat ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causality theory; Common cause principle; Information flows; Multi information

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONS; CAUSALITY THEORY; COMMON CAUSE PRINCIPLE; INFORMATION FLOWS; MULTI-INFORMATION; STOCHASTIC DEPENDENCES;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 67349266583     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2008.06.032     Document Type: Article

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