Uncovering deterministic causal structures: A Boolean approach

Synthese

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-96

  Baumgartner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Causation; Deterministic structures; Discovery algorithms

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749099547     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9348-0     Document Type: Article

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