Identifying causal effects with computer algebra

Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, UAI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 193-200

  García Puente, Luis D ^a   Spielvogel, Sarah ^a   Sullivant, Seth ^b  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

COMPUTER ALGEBRA; GRAPHICAL MODEL; IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM; PARTIAL RESULTS; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

ALGEBRA;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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