Geometry of the faithfulness assumption in causal inference

DOI10.1214/12-AOS1080zbMath1267.62068arXiv1207.0547OpenAlexW2092059090MaRDI QIDQ355081

Caroline Uhler, Garvesh Raskutti, Bin Yu, Peter Bühlmann

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0547

zbMATH Keywords

conditional independencedirected acyclic graphsstructural equation modelalgebraic statistics(strong) faithfulnessCrofton's formulaPC-algorithmreal algebraic hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of graph theory (05C90) Directed graphs (digraphs), tournaments (05C20)

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Uses Software

• pcalg
• TETRAD

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