Constructing separators and adjustment sets in ancestral graphs

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 30th Conference, UAI 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 907-916

  Van Der Zander, Benito ^a   Lis̈kiewicz, Maciej ^a   Textor, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GRAPHIC METHODS; SEPARATORS;

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK; ANCESTRAL GRAPHS; CAUSAL MODEL; COVARIATES; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; LATENT CONFOUNDERS; MAXIMAL ANCESTRAL GRAPHS; SUBGRAPHS;

DIRECTED GRAPHS;

EID: 84923271678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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