Regression by dependence minimization and its application to causal inference in additive noise models

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 382, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mooij, Joris ^a   Janzing, Dominik ^a   Peters, Jonas ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL MODEL; INDEPENDENCE TESTS; INFERENCE PROBLEM; NOISE DISTRIBUTION; NON-PARAMETRIC; NOVEL METHODS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PARTICULAR DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION METHOD; SIMPLE METHOD; STATISTICAL DEPENDENCE; STATISTICALLY DEPENDENT;

ADDITIVE NOISE; ROBOT LEARNING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 70049088324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1553374.1553470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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