24 research outputs found
Confounding Equivalence in Causal Inference
The paper provides a simple test for deciding, from a given causal diagram,
whether two sets of variables have the same bias-reducing potential under
adjustment. The test requires that one of the following two conditions holds:
either (1) both sets are admissible (i.e., satisfy the back-door criterion) or
(2) the Markov boundaries surrounding the manipulated variable(s) are identical
in both sets. Applications to covariate selection and model testing are
discussed.Comment: Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2010
An algorithm for finding a shortest vector in a two-dimensional modular lattice
AbstractLet 0 < a, b < d be integers with a ≠b. The lattice Ld(a, b) is the set of all multiples of the vector (a, b) modulo d. An algorithm is presented for finding a shortest vector in Ld(a, b). The complexity of the algorithm is shown to be logarithmic in the size of d when the number of arithmetical operations is counted
Confounding Equivalence in Causal Inference
The paper provides a simple test for deciding, from a given causal diagram, whether two sets of variables have the same bias-reducing potential under adjustment. The test requires that one of the following two conditions holds: either (1) both sets are admissible (i.e., satisfy the back-door criterion) or (2) the Markov boundaries surrounding the manipulated variable(s) are identical in both sets. Applications to covariate selection and model testing are discussed
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Confounding Equivalence in Causal Inference
The paper provides a simple test for deciding, from a given causal diagram, whether two sets of variables have the same bias-reducing potential under adjustment. The test requires that one of the following two conditions holds: either (1) both sets are admissible (i.e., satisfy the back-door criterion) or (2) the Markov boundaries surrounding the manipulated variable(s) are identical in both sets. Applications to covariate selection and model testing are discussed