Quantifying causal influences

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2324-2358

  Janzing, Dominik ^a   Balduzzi, David ^b   Grosse Wentrup, Moritz ^a   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Causality; Information flow; Transfer entropy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888871949     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOS1145     Document Type: Article

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