The possibility of Integrative Causal Analysis: Learning from different datasets and studies

Engineering Intelligent Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 163-175

  Tsamardinos, Ioannis ^a,b   Triantafillou, Sofia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Foundation for Research and Technology   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL RELATIONS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HUMAN BRAIN; LARGE PARTS; LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; MULTIPLE GENES; SEMI-AUTOMATED;

DATA REDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77956700497     PISSN: 14728915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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