Epidemiological Causal Graph Identification: Challenges, Identifiability and Algorithms
流行病学因果图识别:挑战、可识别性与算法
Causal discovery from observational data is fundamental to statistics and machine learning, yet determining causal direction without interventions necessitates structural assumptions. Existing identifiability research primarily focuses on continuous variables under additive noise models, often neglecting mixed datasets containing ordinal scales, counts, and continuous measurements. This paper investigates causal discovery in Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) where nodes follow…