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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 625-648Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12194
Keywords
causal model; directed acyclic graph; latent variable
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Directed acyclic graph (DAG) modelsalso called Bayesian networksare widely used in probabilistic reasoning, machine learning and causal inference. If latent variables are present, then the set of possible marginal distributions over the remaining (observed) variables is generally not represented by any DAG. Larger classes of mixed graphical models have been introduced to overcome this; however, as we show, these classes are not sufficiently rich to capture all the marginal models that can arise. We introduce a new class of hyper-graphs, called mDAGs, and a latent projection operation to obtain an mDAG from the margin of a DAG. We show that each distinct marginal of a DAG model is represented by at least one mDAG and provide graphical results towards characterizing equivalence of these models. Finally, we show that mDAGs correctly capture the marginal structure of causally interpreted DAGs under interventions on the observed variables.
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