Detecting the direction of causal time series

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference On Machine Learning, ICML 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 801-808

  Peters, Jonas ^a   Janzing, Dominik ^a   Gretton, Arthur ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE MOVING AVERAGE MODEL; CAUSAL REASONING; DATA SETS; DIRECTION OF TIME; REAL WORLD DATA; SIMULATED DATASETS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ROBOT LEARNING;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 71149117601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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