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journal article · Philosophy of agency, purpose & science

Quantifying causal influences

Dominik Janzing, David Balduzzi, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Bernhard Schölkopf · 2013

The Annals of Statistics

A paper on quantifying causal influences within a causal model. Both papers use it to define the teleological fraction of a region, the share of causal influence on its outcomes that runs through goal-directed processes, measured as the outcome variance lost when their arrows are cut. Teleological saturation (C2) is the state in which that share dominates.

Cited in
both papers (Flagship: Three conjectures; Companion §10)
Used for
C2C2; teleological fraction
Strand
Philosophy of agency, purpose & science · Teleology, agency & minds

Cite

@article{janzing2013quantifying,
  title = {Quantifying causal influences},
  author = {Dominik Janzing and David Balduzzi and Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Bernhard Schölkopf},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {The Annals of Statistics},
  doi = {10.1214/13-AOS1145},
}