Introduction to causal inference

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages 1643-1662

  Spirtes, Peter ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causal inference; Causation

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL MODELING; CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GENERATIVE MODEL; MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PREDICTION PROBLEM; SAMPLE DATA; SMALL SAMPLES;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77953492378     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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