Identifying Independencies in Causal Graphs with Feedback

2013/02/13 by Judea Pearl, Pearl, Judea, Rina Dechter +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Game Theory and Applications #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1302.3595

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Abstract

We show that the d -separation criterion constitutes a valid test for conditional independence relationships that are induced by feedback systems involving discrete variables.

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