Causal discovery through MAP selection of stratified chain event graphs

DOI10.1214/14-EJS917zbMath1349.62299MaRDI QIDQ2509808

Robert G. Cowell, James Q. Smith

Publication date: 30 July 2014

Published in: Electronic Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejs/1406638931

zbMATH Keywords

causality; MAP estimation; structural learning; event tree; chain event graph; staged event tree; stratified chain event graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62H99: Multivariate analysis

62F15: Bayesian inference

68T35: Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence

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Uses Software

• HUGIN
• TETRAD

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