Logic of Causal Inference from Data Under Presence of Latent Confounders

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O. S. Balabanov
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[1] National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,Institute of Software Systems
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causal network; d-separation; conditional independence; edge orientation rules; confounder; collider; illusory edge; dependence testability assumptions;
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The problems of causal inference of models from empirical data (by independence-based methods) and some error mechanisms are examined. We demonstrate that the known rules for orienting edges of model can produce misleading results under presence of latent confounders. We propose corrections to the orientation rules aiming to successfully extend them for inference of models beyond the ancestral model class. The necessary assumptions justifying the inference of adequate causal relationships from data are suggested.
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