An algorithm for direct causal learning of influences on patient outcomes.

Objective: This study aims at developing and introducing a new algorithm, called direct causal learner (DCL), for learning the direct causal influences of a single target. We applied it to both simulated and real clinical and genome wide association study (GWAS) datasets and compared its performance...

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Published in:Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Vol. 75; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors: Rathnam, Chandramouli, Lee, Sanghoon, Jiang, Xia
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. Jan2017
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