Causal effect identification in acyclic directed mixed graphs and gated models

DOI10.1016/J.IJAR.2017.06.015zbMATH Open1419.68174arXiv1612.07512OpenAlexW2565310788MaRDI QIDQ1678412FDOQ1678412

Authors: Marcus Bendtsen, Jose M. Peña 

Publication date: 17 November 2017

Published in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a new family of graphical models that consists of graphs with possibly directed, undirected and bidirected edges but without directed cycles. We show that these models are suitable for representing causal models with additive error terms. We provide a set of sufficient graphical criteria for the identification of arbitrary causal effects when the new models contain directed and undirected edges but no bidirected edge. We also provide a necessary and sufficient graphical criterion for the identification of the causal effect of a single variable on the rest of the variables. Moreover, we develop an exact algorithm for learning the new models from observational and interventional data via answer set programming. Finally, we introduce gated models for causal effect identification, a new family of graphical models that exploits context specific independences to identify additional causal effects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07512

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zbMATH Keywords

answer set programmingcausal modelsacyclic directed mixed graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Logic programming (68N17)

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