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Causal network learning with non-invertible functional relationships

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  • Wang, Bingling
  • Zhou, Qing

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Discovery of causal relationships from observational data is an important problem in many areas. Several recent results have established the identifiability of causal directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with non-Gaussian and/or nonlinear structural equation models (SEMs). Focusing on nonlinear SEMs defined by non-invertible functions, which exist in many data domains, a novel test is proposed for non-invertible bivariate causal models. Algorithms are further developed to incorporate this test in structure learning of DAGs that contain both linear and nonlinear causal relations. Extensive numerical comparisons show that the proposed algorithms outperform existing DAG learning methods in identifying causal graphical structures. The practical application of the methods is illustrated by learning causal networks for combinatorial binding of transcription factors from ChIP-Seq data.

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  • Wang, Bingling & Zhou, Qing, 2021. "Causal network learning with non-invertible functional relationships," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:156:y:2021:i:c:s0167947320302322
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2020.107141
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