More Causal Inference with Graphical Models in R Package pcalg
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The pcalg package for R (R Development Core Team 2014) can be used for the following two purposes: Causal structure learning and estimation of causal effects from observational and/or interventional data. In this document, we give a brief overview of the methodology, and demonstrate the package’s functionality in both toy examples and applications. This vignette is an updated and extended (FCI, RFCI, etc) version of Kalisch et al. (2012) which was for pcalg 1.1-4.
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Causal Inference using Graphical Models with the R Package pcalg
The pcalg package for R (R Development Core Team (2010)) can be used for the following two purposes: Causal structure learning and estimation of causal effects from observational data. In this document, we give a brief overview of the methodology, and demonstrate the package’s functionality in both toy examples and applications.
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