Towards Effective Elicitation of NIN-AND Tree Causal Models

  • Authors:
  • Yang Xiang;Yu Li;Zoe Jingyu Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Guelph, Canada;University of Guelph, Canada;University of Guelph, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SUM '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

To specify a Bayes net (BN), a conditional probability table (CPT), often of an effect conditioned on its n causes, needs assessed for each node. It generally has the complexity exponential on n . Noisy-OR reduces the complexity to linear, but can only represent reinforcing causal interactions. The non-impeding noisy-AND (NIN-AND) tree is the first causal model that explicitly expresses reinforcement, undermining, and their mixture. It has linear complexity, but requires elicitation of a tree topology for types of causal interactions. We study their topology space and develop two novel techniques for more effective elicitation.