Minimal sufficient causation and directed acyclic graphs

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1437-1465

  Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a   Robins, James M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Conditional independence; Directed acyclic graphs; Graphical models; Interactions; Sufficient causation; Synergism

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649087638     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS613     Document Type: Article

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