Confounding Equivalence in Causal Inference
| Autor: | Pearl, Judea, Paz, Azaria |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The paper provides a simple test for deciding, from a given causal diagram, whether two sets of variables have the same bias-reducing potential under adjustment. The test requires that one of the following two conditions holds: either (1) both sets are admissible (i.e., satisfy the back-door criterion) or (2) the Markov boundaries surrounding the manipulated variable(s) are identical in both sets. Applications to covariate selection and model testing are discussed. Comment: Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2010) |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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