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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
8:30am - 9:30am PDT
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- Speaker: Samuel Yang (Cornell University)
- Title: Uncertainty Quantification for Causal Discovery
- Discussant: Daniel Malinsky (Columbia University)
- Abstract: Causal discovery procedures are popular methods for discovering causal structure across the physical, biological, and social sciences. However, most procedures for causal discovery only output a single estimated causal model or single equivalence class of models. In this work, we propose a procedure for quantifying uncertainty in causal discovery. Specifically, we consider structural equation models where a unique graph can be identified and propose a procedure which returns a confidence sets of causal orderings which are not ruled out by the data. We show that asymptotically, a true causal ordering will be contained in the returned set with some user specified probability. In addition, the confidence set can be used to form conservative sets of ancestral relationships.
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