Inverse statistical problems: from the inverse Ising problem to data science

HC Nguyen, R Zecchina, J Berg - Advances in Physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Inverse problems in statistical physics are motivated by the challenges of 'big data'in
different fields, in particular high-throughput experiments in biology. In inverse problems, the …

Causality-based feature selection: Methods and evaluations

K Yu, X Guo, L Liu, J Li, H Wang, Z Ling… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Feature selection is a crucial preprocessing step in data analytics and machine learning.
Classical feature selection algorithms select features based on the correlations between …

Domain adaptation by using causal inference to predict invariant conditional distributions

S Magliacane, T Van Ommen… - Advances in neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
An important goal common to domain adaptation and causal inference is to make accurate
predictions when the distributions for the source (or training) domain (s) and target (or test) …

Introduction to the foundations of causal discovery

F Eberhardt - International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2017 - Springer
This article presents an overview of several known approaches to causal discovery. It is
organized by relating the different fundamental assumptions that the methods depend on …

Causal identification under markov equivalence: Completeness results

A Jaber, J Zhang, E Bareinboim - … Conference on Machine …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
Causal effect identification is the task of determining whether a causal distribution is
computable from the combination of an observational distribution and substantive …

Data-driven causal effect estimation based on graphical causal modelling: A survey

D Cheng, J Li, L Liu, J Liu, TD Le - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In many fields of scientific research and real-world applications, unbiased estimation of
causal effects from non-experimental data is crucial for understanding the mechanism …

Some models are useful, but how do we know which ones? Towards a unified Bayesian model taxonomy

PC Bürkner, M Scholz, ST Radev - Statistic Surveys, 2023 - projecteuclid.org
Probabilistic (Bayesian) modeling has experienced a surge of applications in almost all
quantitative sciences and industrial areas. This development is driven by a combination of …

Identifying causal effects with the R package causaleffect

S Tikka, J Karvanen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07161, 2018 - arxiv.org
Do-calculus is concerned with estimating the interventional distribution of an action from the
observed joint probability distribution of the variables in a given causal structure. All …

[HTML][HTML] Causal models

C Hitchcock - 2018 - plato.stanford.edu
Causal models are mathematical models representing causal relationships within an
individual system or population. They facilitate inferences about causal relationships from …

Causal identification under Markov equivalence: calculus, algorithm, and completeness

A Jaber, A Ribeiro, J Zhang… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
One common task in many data sciences applications is to answer questions about the
effect of new interventions, like:what would happen to $ Y $ if we make $ X $ equal to $ x …