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Over the past two decades, several consistent procedures have been designed to infer causal conclusions from observational data. We prove that if the true causal network might be an arbitrary, linear Gaussian network or a discrete Bayes…
We analyze record-breaking events in time series of continuous random variables that are subsequently discretized by rounding down to integer multiples of a discretization scale $\Delta>0$. Rounding leads to ties of an existing record,…
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