Theory-based causal inference

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN COMPUTATION; CAUSAL INFERENCES; GRAPHICAL MODEL; HYPOTHESIS SPACE; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; TOPDOWN;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84899033090     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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