Relational blocking for causal discovery

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 145-151

  Rattigan, Matthew J H ^a   Maier, Marc ^a   Jensen, David ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CAUSAL ANALYSIS; CAUSAL MODEL; CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCES; GRAPHICAL MODEL; RELATIONAL DATA; SOCIAL MEDIA;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SEMANTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 80055033152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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