On Granger causality and the effect of interventions in time series

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-32

  Eichler, Michael ^a   Didelez, Vanessa ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Causality; Decision theory; Graphical models; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION THEORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

DECISION THEORY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950462635     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-009-9143-3     Document Type: Article

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