Topological Conditional Separation
Discrete Mathematics
2021-08-09 v1 General Topology
Abstract
Pearl's d-separation is a foundational notion to study conditional independence between random variables. We define the topological conditional separation and we show that it is equivalent to the d-separation, extended beyond acyclic graphs, be they finite or infinite.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.03096,
title = {Topological Conditional Separation},
author = {Michel de Lara and Jean-Philippe Chancelier and Benjamin Heymann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.03096},
year = {2021}
}