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Identifier |
000403636 |
Title |
Marginal causal consistency in constraint-based causal learning |
Alternative Title |
Συνέπεια αιτιακών σχέσεων κατά την εκμάθηση περιθωρίων αιτιακών γράφων με αλγορίθμους βασισμένους σε περιορισμούς |
Author
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Ρουμπελάκη, Άννα Ν.
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Thesis advisor
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Τσαμαρδινός, Ιωάννης
Τριανταφύλλου, Σοφία
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Reviewer
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Τόλλης, Ιωάννης
Γεωργακόπουλος, Γεώργιος
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Abstract |
Maximal ancestral graphs are probabilistic graphical models that can represent the causal relationships among a set of measured variables in the presence of latent confounders. The Fast Causal Inference algorithm is broadly used to retrieve invariant pairwise features of a class of Markov Equivalent MAGs from observational data sets. We investigate the consistency of causal features obtained by FCI and its variations in different marginals of a data set. Under perfect statistical knowledge, the causal relationships obtained by the algorithm when applied on marginal data sets should not conflict the causal relationships obtained when it is applied on all the measured variables. However, in practice FCI is prone to statistical errors and error propagation. As a result, the output of FCI in different marginals may be conflicting. In order to measure causal consistency among marginal data sets, we employed a novel method to identify all invariant causal relationships that exist among the measured variables. In our empirical evaluation on simulated data sets we show that constraint-based algorithms are mostly consistent when applied on marginal data sets. We also introduce an algorithm for ranking causal relationships. We compared with bootstrapping and studied the effect of combining both scores. We studied the problem of marginal causal consistency in various settings, and even in cases of non-ideal scenarios for the algorithm. Finally, we propose a new method of feature selection. The predictors that are selected by our method remain predictive, even when variables on the system are manipulated. We compare our method with several others and conclude that it has similar performance as the Markov Blanket, and outperforms the rest.
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Language |
English |
Subject |
Marginal distributions |
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Αιτιακή μάθηση |
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Περιθώριες κατανομές |
Issue date |
2016-11-18 |
Collection
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School/Department--School of Sciences and Engineering--Department of Computer Science--Post-graduate theses
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Type of Work--Post-graduate theses
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Permanent Link |
https://elocus.lib.uoc.gr//dlib/a/a/3/metadata-dlib-1478338084-142942-16934.tkl
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