Causal inference on discrete data using additive noise models

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2436-2450

  Peters, Jonas ^a   Janzing, Dominik ^a   Scholkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal inference; graphical models; regression

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL INFERENCE; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DISCRETE DATA; DISCRETE VARIABLES; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FINITE SAMPLES; GRAPHICAL MODEL; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

ADDITIVE NOISE; ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; SAMPLING;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

EID: 80053158210     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2011.71     Document Type: Article

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