Practical Approaches to Causal Relationship Exploration

by Thuc Duy Le, Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu

This brief presents four practical methods to effectively explore causal relationships, which are often used for explanation, prediction and decision making in medicine, epidemiology, biology, economics, physics and social sciences. The first two methods apply conditional independence tests for causal discovery. The last two methods employ association rule mining for efficient causal hypothesis generation, and a partial association test and retrospective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319144324
• ISBN13: 9783319144320
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"