Causal search procedures for fMRI: review and suggestions

Behaviormetrika

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 193-225

  Henry, Teague ^a   Gates, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal search; DAGs; DCM; fMRI; GIMME; Greedy search; IMaGES; LiNGAM

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034775502     PISSN: 03857417     EISSN: 13496964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s41237-016-0010-8     Document Type: Article

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