What Is Going on Inside the Arrows? Discovering the Hidden Springs in Causal Models.

Using Gebharter's representation, we consider aspects of the problem of discovering the structure of unmeasured submechanisms when the variables in those submechanisms have not been measured. Exploiting an early insight of Sober's, we provide a correct algorithm for identifying latent, endogenous st...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 82; no. 4; pp. 556 - 587
Main Authors: Murray-Watters, Alexander, Glymour, Clark
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Published: Cambridge University Press Oct2015
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