Star-causality and factor analysis: old stories and new perspectives
Lei Xu · Applied Informatics · 2017
Advances in causal discovery from data are becoming a widespread topic in machine learning these recent years. In this paper, studies on conditional independence-based causality are briefly reviewed along a line of observable two-variable, three-variable, star decomposable, and tree decomposable, as well as their relationship to factor analysis. Then, developments along this line are further addressed from three perspectives with a number of issues, especially on learning approximate star decomposable, and tree decomposable, as well as their generalisations to block star-causality analysis on factor analysis and block tree decomposable analysis on linear causal model.