Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Causal decomposition in the mutual causation system

  • Albert C. Yang,
  • Chung-Kang Peng,
  • Norden E. Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05845-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Causality inference in time series analysis based on temporal precedence principle between cause and effect fails to detect mutual causal interactions. Here, Yang et al. introduce a causal decomposition approach based on the covariation principle of cause and effect that overcomes this limitation.