Publication Date:
2016-07-06
Description:
We describe a method for removing the effect of confounders to reconstruct a latent quantity of interest. The method, referred to as “half-sibling regression,” is inspired by recent work in causal inference using additive noise models. We provide a theoretical justification, discussing both independent and identically distributed as well as...
Keywords:
Sackler Colloquium on Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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