Information-Theoretic Inference of Common Ancestors

Information-Theoretic Inference of Common Ancestors

A directed acyclic graph (DAG) partially represents the conditional independence structure among observations of a system if the local Markov condition holds, that is if every variable is independent of its non-descendants given its parents. In general, there is a whole class of DAGs that represents...

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Main Authors: Bastian Steudel, Nihat Ay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-04-01
Series:Entropy
Subjects:
information theory
common cause principle
directed acyclic graphs
Bayesian nets
causality
mutual information
Kolmogorov complexity
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/4/2304

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