Analysis of cause-effect inference by comparing regression errors
We address the problem of inferring the causal direction between two variables by comparing the least-squares errors of the predictions in both possible directions. Under the assumption of an independence between the function relating cause and effect, the conditional noise distribution, and the dis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-01-01
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| Series: | PeerJ Computer Science |
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/cs-169.pdf |