Intervention, determinism, and the causal minimality condition

Synthese

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 335-347

  Zhang, Jiji ^a   Spirtes, Peter ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal Bayesian network; Causation; Determinism; Intervention; Markov condition; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052264279     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-010-9751-1     Document Type: Article

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