Identifying cause and effect on discrete data using additive noise models

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 597-604

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

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; DISCRETE DATA; DISCRETE VARIABLES; FINITE SAMPLES; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SAMPLING;

ADDITIVE NOISE;

EID: 84862292888     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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