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SFI Working Paper Abstract

Title: A Refinement of the Common Cause Principle
Author(s): Nihat Ay
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Paper #: 08-01-001
Abstract: I study the interplay between stochastic dependence and causal relations within the setting of Bayesian networks and in terms of information theory. The application of a recently defined causal information flow measure provides a quantitative refinement of Reichenbach's common cause principle.

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