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# UAI2014CI
UAI 2014 Workshop on Causal Inference: Learning and Prediction

### Proceedings of the UAI 2014 Workshop Causal Inference: Learning and Prediction
co-located with 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2014)

### Quebec City, Canada, July 27, 2014.

Edited by

### Joris M. Mooij *
Dominik Janzing **
Jonas Peters ***
Tom Claassen ****
Antti Hyttinen *****

* University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
** Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
*** ETH Zürich Seminar for Statistics, Zürich, Switzerland
**** Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
***** California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California, USA

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Full papers

- How Occam's Razor Provides a Neat Definition of Direct Causation 1-10
  Alexander Gebharter, Gerhard Schurz
- Constructing Separators and Adjustment Sets in Ancestral Graphs 11-24
  Benito van der Zander, Maciej Liśkiewicz, Johannes Textor
- Propensity Score Matching for Causal Inference with Relational Data 25-34
  David Arbour, Katerina Marazopoulou, Dan Garant, David Jensen
- Type-II Errors of Independence Tests Can Lead to Arbitrarily Large Errors in Estimated Causal Effects: An Illustrative Example 35-42
  Nicholas Cornia, Joris M. Mooij
- Toward Learning Graphical and Causal Process Models 43-48
  Christopher Meek

### Abstracts

- On Causal Explanations of Quantum Correlations (abstract) 49
  Robert W. Spekkens
- Generalizability of Causal and Statistical Relations (abstract) 51-52
  Elias Bareinboim
- Estimating Causal Effects by Bounding Confounding (abstract) 53
  Philipp Geiger, Dominik Janzing, Bernhard Schölkopf

## Additional Material

The entire proceedings can be downloaded as a single PDF file.

We offer a BibTeX file for citing papers of this workshop from LaTeX.

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