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ArticleSynthese2019

Amalgamating evidence of dynamics.

David Danks, Sergey Plis

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Article in Synthese, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. GRACE-C: Generalized Rate Agnostic Causal Estimation via Constraints.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David DanksDepartments of Philosophy & Psychology, 161 Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Tel.: +1 412-268-8047.
Sergey PlisThe Mind Research Network, 1101 Yale Blvd NE.

Funding

TrainingU54HG008540 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, BERG, JEREMY M · 2014 to 2018
$12.8M
Multivariate methods for identifying multitask/multimodal brain imaging biomarkersR01EB006841 · NIBIB · THE MIND RESEARCH NETWORK · PI VINCE D CALHOUN, Sergey Plis · 2007 to 2026
$9.8M
NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG008540NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB006841
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many approaches to evidence amalgamation focus on relatively static information or evidence: the data to be amalgamated involve different variables, contexts, or experiments, but not measurements over extended periods of time. However, much of scientific inquiry focuses on dynamical systems; the system's behavior over time is critical. Moreover, novel problems of evidence amalgamation arise in these contexts. First, data can be collected at different measurement timescales, where potentially none of them correspond to the underlying system's causal timescale. Second, missing variables have a significantly different impact on time series measurements than they do in the traditional static setting; in particular, they make causal and structural inference much more difficult. In this paper, we argue that amalgamation should proceed by integrating

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PMID31527987
PMCPMC6746411

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