Practical Approaches to Causal Relationship Exploration

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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3. Local Causal Discovery with a Simple PC Algorithm

   • Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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4. A Local Causal Discovery Algorithm for High Dimensional Data

   • Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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5. Causal Rule Discovery with Partial Association Test

   • Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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6. Causal Rule Discovery with Cohort Studies

   • Jiuyong Li, Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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7. Experimental Comparison and Discussions

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8. Back Matter

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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 cohort study for validating the hypotheses. All four methods are innovative and effective in identifying potential causal relationships around a given target, and each has its own strength and weakness. For each method, a software tool is provided along with examples demonstrating its use. Practical Approaches to Causal Relationship Exploration is designed for researchers and practitioners working in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and biomedical research. The material also benefits advanced students interested in causal relationship discovery.

• Bayesian networks
• Causal relationship
• Cohort study
• Local causal discovery
• Partial association

• University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Jiuyong Li

• School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

  Lin Liu, Thuc Duy Le

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