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2011 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Discovering Unconfounded Causal Relationships Using Linear Non-Gaussian Models
verfasst von : Doris Entner, Patrik O. Hoyer
Erschienen in: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Causal relationships among a set of observed variables are often modeled using directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures, and learning such structures from data is known as the causal discovery problem. We here consider the learning of linear non-Gaussian acyclic models [9] with hidden variables [5]. Estimation of such models is computationally challenging and hence only possible when the number of variables is small. We present an algorithm for obtaining partial but in the large sample limit correct information about pairwise total causal effects in such a model. In particular, we obtain consistent estimates of the total effects for all variable pairs for which there exist an unconfounded superset of observed variables. Simulations show that the estimated pairwise total effects are good approximations of the true total effects.