When are graphical causal models not good models?

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lemeire, Jan ^a   Steenhaut, Kris ^a   Touhafi, Abdellah ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causal models; Kolmogorov complexity; Kolmogorov minimal sufficient statistic

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EID: 84877745222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0027     Document Type: Chapter

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