TY - GEN
T1 - M-transportability
T2 - 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013
AU - Lee, Sanghack
AU - Honavar, Vasant
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We study m-transportability, a generalization of transportability, which offers a license to use causal information elicited from experiments and observations in m ≥ 1 source environments to estimate a causal effect in a given target environment. We provide a novel characterization of mtransportability that directly exploits the completeness of docalculus to obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for m-transportability. We provide an algorithm for deciding mtransportability that determines whether a causal relation is m-transportable; and if it is, produces a transport formula, that is, a recipe for estimating the desired causal effect by combining experimental information from m source environments with observational information from the target environment.
AB - We study m-transportability, a generalization of transportability, which offers a license to use causal information elicited from experiments and observations in m ≥ 1 source environments to estimate a causal effect in a given target environment. We provide a novel characterization of mtransportability that directly exploits the completeness of docalculus to obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for m-transportability. We provide an algorithm for deciding mtransportability that determines whether a causal relation is m-transportable; and if it is, produces a transport formula, that is, a recipe for estimating the desired causal effect by combining experimental information from m source environments with observational information from the target environment.
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U2 - 10.1609/aaai.v27i1.8596
DO - 10.1609/aaai.v27i1.8596
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893348295
SN - 9781577356158
T3 - Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013
SP - 583
EP - 590
BT - Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013
PB - Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Y2 - 14 July 2013 through 18 July 2013
ER -