Finding latent causes in causal networks: An efficient approach based on Markov blankets

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1249-1256

  Pellet, Jean Philippe ^a   Elisseeff, André ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Graphical models; Structure learning

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

CAUSAL INFERENCES; CAUSAL NETWORK; CAUSAL STRUCTURE LEARNING; GRAPHICAL MODEL; LATENT CAUSE; LEARN+; LOCAL-DENSITY; MARKOV BLANKETS; STRUCTURE LEARNING ALGORITHM; STRUCTURE-LEARNING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84858788507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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