Information-geometric approach to inferring causal directions

DOI10.1016/j.artint.2012.01.002zbMath1248.68490WikidataQ57340947 ScholiaQ57340947MaRDI QIDQ456729

Jan Lemeire, Jakob Zscheischler, Dominik Janzing, Povilas Daniušis, Bastian Steudel, Bernhard Schölkopf, Kun Zhang, Joris M. Mooij

Publication date: 16 October 2012

Published in: Artificial Intelligence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2012.01.002

zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean triple; cause-effect pairs; deterministic causal relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68Q30: Algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity, etc.)

68T37: Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence

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Uses Software

• TETRAD
• GPML

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