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Distinguishing between cause and effect

2010

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We describe eight data sets that together formed the CauseEffectPairs task in the Causality Challenge #2: Pot-Luck competition. Each set consists of a sample of a pair of statistically dependent random variables. One variable is known to cause the other one, but this information was hidden from the participants; the task was to identify which of the two variables was the cause and which one the effect, based upon the observed sample. The data sets were chosen such that we expect common agreement on the ground truth. Even though part of the statistical dependences may also be due to hidden common causes, common sense tells us that there is a significant cause-effect relation between the two variables in each pair. We also present baseline results using three different causal inference methods.

Author(s): Mooij, J. and Janzing, D.
Book Title: JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings: Volume 6
Pages: 147-156
Year: 2010
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Editors: Guyon, I. , D. Janzing, B. Sch{\"o}lkopf
Publisher: MIT Press

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: Causality: Objectives and Assessment (NIPS 2008 Workshop)
Event Place: Whistler, BC, Canada

Address: Cambridge, MA, USA
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@inproceedings{MooijJ2010,
  title = {Distinguishing between cause and effect},
  author = {Mooij, J. and Janzing, D.},
  booktitle = {JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings: Volume 6},
  pages = {147-156},
  editors = {Guyon, I. , D. Janzing, B. Sch{\"o}lkopf},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
  year = {2010},
  doi = {}
}