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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Kernel-Based Independence Tests for Causal Structure Learning on Functional Data.

Felix Laumann, Julius von Kügelgen, Junhyung Park, Bernhard Schölkopf, Mauricio Barahona

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Felix LaumannDepartment of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, UK.
Julius von KügelgenMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6469-4118
Junhyung ParkMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Mauricio BarahonaDepartment of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1089-5675

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/ N014529/1
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Abstract

Measurements of systems taken along a continuous functional dimension, such as time or space, are ubiquitous in many fields, from the physical and biological sciences to economics and engineering. Such measurements can be viewed as realisations of an underlying smooth process sampled over the continuum. However, traditional methods for independence testing and causal learning are not directly applicable to such data, as they do not take into account the dependence along the functional dimension. By using specifically designed kernels, we introduce statistical tests for bivariate, joint, and conditional independence for functional variables. Our method not only extends the applicability to functional data of the Hilbert-Schmidt independence criterion (hsic) and its d-variate version (

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causal discoveryfunctional data analysisindependence testskernel methods

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PMID38136477
PMCPMC10742995

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