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ArticleBiometrics2023

Functional Bayesian networks for discovering causality from multivariate functional data.

Fangting Zhou, Kejun He, Kunbo Wang, Yanxun Xu, Yang Ni

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Article in Biometrics, 2023. 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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  1. Scalar-Function Causal Discovery for Generating Causal Hypotheses with Observational Wearable Device Data.Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing · 2024
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  2. Directed Cyclic Graph for Causal Discovery from Multivariate Functional Data.Advances in neural information processing systems · 2023
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Fangting ZhouDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Kejun HeCenter for Applied Statistics, Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3996-6246
Kunbo WangDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Yanxun XuDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5554-8637
Yang NiDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0636-2363

Funding

Bayesian Methods for Optimizing Combination Antiretroviral Therapy for Mentalhealth in People with HIVR01MH128085 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Yanxun Xu · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
Bayesian Differential Causal Network and Clustering Methods for Single-Cell Data (R01GM148974)R01GM148974 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI NI, YANG · 2022 to 2025
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1R01GM148974-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM148974NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH128085NIMH NIH HHS R01MH128085
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multivariate functional data arise in a wide range of applications. One fundamental task is to understand the causal relationships among these functional objects of interest. In this paper, we develop a novel Bayesian network (BN) model for multivariate functional data where conditional independencies and causal structure are encoded by a directed acyclic graph. Specifically, we allow the functional objects to deviate from Gaussian processes, which is the key to unique causal structure identification even when the functions are measured with noises. A fully Bayesian framework is designed to infer the functional BN model with natural uncertainty quantification through posterior summaries. Simulation studies and real data examples demonstrate the practical utility of the proposed model.

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Bayes TheoremCausalityComputer SimulationUncertaintycausal discoverydirected acyclic graphsmultivariate longitudinal/functional datanon-Gaussianitystructure learning

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PMID37635676
PMCPMC10840881

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