Title
Kernel-based Conditional Independence Test and Application in Causal Discovery
Abstract
Conditional independence testing is an important problem, especially in Bayesian network learning and causal discovery. Due to the curse of dimensionality, testing for conditional independence of continuous variables is particularly challenging. We propose a Kernel-based Conditional Independence test (KCI-test), by constructing an appropriate test statistic and deriving its asymptotic distribution under the null hypothesis of conditional independence. The proposed method is computationally efficient and easy to implement. Experimental results show that it outperforms other methods, especially when the conditioning set is large or the sample size is not very large, in which case other methods encounter difficulties.
Year
Venue
DocType
2011
uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1202.3775
76
3.25
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kun Zhang177283.37
Jonas Peters250531.25
Dominik Janzing372365.30
Bernhard Schölkopf4231203091.82