Practical Approaches to Causal Relationship Exploration

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Li, Jiuyong (Συγγραφέας), Liu, Lin (Συγγραφέας), Le, Thuc Duy (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Θέματα: Computer science.; Data mining.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

This brief presents four practical methods to effectively explore causal relationships, which are often used for explanation, prediction and decision making in medicine, epidemiology, biology, economics, physics and social sciences. The first two methods apply conditional independence tests for caus...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Local causal discovery with a simple PC algorithm
• A local causal discovery algorithm for high dimensional data
• Causal rule discovery with partial association test
• Causal rule discovery with cohort studies
• Experimental comparison and discussions.