Leveraging directed causal discovery to detect latent common causes

no code implementations • 22 Oct 2019 • Ciarán M. Lee, Christopher Hart, Jonathan G. Richens, Saurabh Johri

Here, we devise a general heuristic which takes a causal discovery algorithm that can only distinguish purely directed causal relations and modifies it to also detect latent common causes.

Causal Discovery Causal Inference