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What's the relationship between statement "Z causes both X and Y" and "X and Y are independent given Z"?
Suppose I have two statements:
Statement 1: Random variable Z is the common cause for random variable X and Y (Z causes both X and Y)
Statement 2: Random variable X and Y are (conditionally) ...
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Conditional independence, partial correlation
In my work, I am modelling graphs by measuring the zero- and first-order conditional independence between the variables.
That is,
if there are three variables, say $A$,$B$ and $C$, an edge between the ...
