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用图形格兰杰方法建立时间因果模型

Temporal Causal Modeling with Graphical Granger Methods
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/kdd07_arnold_tcmg/  
主讲教师: Andrew Arnold
开课单位: 卡内基梅隆大学
开课时间: 2007-08-22
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
对现实世界问题的挖掘因果关系的需求已被广泛认可,而不仅仅是统计相关性。这些应用中的许多自然涉及时间数据,这提出了如何最好地利用时间信息进行因果建模的挑战。最近,基于一个原因有助于预测其未来影响的直觉,具有“格兰杰因果关系”概念的图形建模在许多涉及时间序列数据分析的领域中受到关注。随着对回归的模型选择方法(例如Lasso)的兴趣激增,作为解决图形模型的结构学习的实际替代方案,问题在于是否以及如何将这两个概念组合成用于时间因果建模的实际可行方法。在本文中,我们研究了许多相关算法,从松散的角度来看,它们属于图形格兰杰方法的范畴,并从多个视点描述它们的相对性能。例如,我们的实验表明,Lasso算法在规范的成对图形Granger方法上表现出一致的增益。我们还描述了与其他基准方法相比,图形格兰杰方法的这些变体表现良好的条件。最后,我们将这些方法应用于涉及公司关键绩效指标的现实世界数据集,并提出一些具体结果。
课程简介: The need for mining causality, beyond mere statistical correlations, for real world problems has been recognized widely. Many of these applications naturally involve temporal data, which raises the challenge of how best to leverage the temporal information for causal modeling. Recently graphical modeling with the concept of “Granger causality”, based on the intuition that a cause helps predict its effects in the future, has gained attention in many domains involving time series data analysis. With the surge of interest in model selection methodologies for regression, such as the Lasso, as practical alternatives to solving structural learning of graphical models, the question arises whether and how to combine these two notions into a practically viable approach for temporal causal modeling. In this paper, we examine a host of related algorithms that, loosely speaking, fall under the category of graphical Granger methods, and characterize their relative performance from multiple viewpoints. Our experiments show, for instance, that the Lasso algorithm exhibits consistent gain over the canonical pairwise graphical Granger method. We also characterize conditions under which these variants of graphical Granger methods perform well in comparison to other benchmark methods. Finally, we apply these methods to a real world data set involving key performance indicators of corporations, and present some concrete results.
关 键 词: 时间数据; 格兰杰因果关系; 图形建模
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