Learning semi-Markovian causal models using experiments

Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PGM 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 195-206

  Meganck, Stijn ^a   Maes, Sam ^b   Leray, Philippe ^b   Manderick, Bernard ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b University of Rouen   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANCESTRAL GRAPHS; CAUSAL BAYESIAN NETWORK; CAUSAL INFERENCES; CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CLASSICAL METHODS; LATENT VARIABLE; MARKOV EQUIVALENCE CLASS; MAXIMAL ANCESTRAL GRAPHS; MODELING PROBLEMS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; PARAMETRISATION; SET OF RULES; STANDARD ALGORITHMS; STRUCTURE-LEARNING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84864208008     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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