publications

Frederick Eberhardt

causal & statistical inference

Hyttinen, A., Eberhardt, F., & Hoyer, P. O. (2011). Noisy-OR models with Latent Confounding. In Proceedings of 27th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2011), Barcelona, Spain.

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Hyttinen, A., Eberhardt, F., & Hoyer, P. O. (2010). Causal discovery for linear cyclic models with latent variables. In Proceedings of the 5th European Workshop on Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM 2010), Helsinki, Finland.

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Eberhardt, F., Hoyer, P.O., & Scheines, R. (2010). Combining Experiments to Discover Linear Cyclic Models with Latent Variables. In Journal of Machine Learning, Workshop and Conference Proceedings (AISTATS 2010), 9:185-192.

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Eberhardt, F. (2010). Causal Discovery as a Game. In Journal of Machine Learning, Workshop and Conference Proceedings (NIPS 2008 causality workshop), 6:87-96.

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Eberhardt, F. (2009). Introduction to the Epistemology of Causation. In The Philosophy Compass, 4(6):913-925.

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Eberhardt, F. (2008). Almost Optimal Intervention Sets for Causal Discovery. In Proceedings of 24th Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 161-168.

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Eberhardt, F. (2008). A Sufficient Condition for Pooling Data. In Synthese, special issue, 163(3): 433-442, Springer.

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Eberhardt, F. (2007). Causation and Intervention (Ph.D. Thesis). Carnegie Mellon University.

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Eberhardt, F. & Scheines, R. (2007). Interventions and Causal Inference. In Philosophy of Science, 74:981-995.

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Eberhardt, F., Glymour, C. & Scheines, R. (2006), N-1 Experiments Suffice to Determine the Causal Relations Among N Variables. In D. Holmes and L. Jain (eds.) Innovations in Machine Learning, Theory and Applications Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 194, Springer-Verlag. See also Technical Report CMU-PHIL-161 (2005).

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Eberhardt, F., Glymour, C. & Scheines, R. (2005). On the Number of Experiments Sufficient and in the Worst Case Necessary to Identify All Causal Relations Among N Variables. In F. Bacchus and T. Jaakkola (eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), AUAI Press: 178-184.

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human learning

Danks, D. & Eberhardt, F. (in press). Keeping Bayesian models rational: The need for an account of algorithmic rationality [Commentary on Jones & Love: Bayesian Fundamentalism or Enlightenment?]. In Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

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Eberhardt, F. & Danks, D. (2011) Confirmation in the Cognitive Sciences: The Problematic Case of Bayesian Models. In Minds & Machines, 21(3):389-410.

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Danks, D. & Eberhardt, F. (2009). Explaining Norms and Norms Explained [Commentary on precis of Bayesian Rationality by Oaksford & Chater]. In Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32: 86-87.

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Danks, D. & Eberhardt, F. (2009). Conceptual Problems in Statistics, Testing and Experimentation. In J. Symons & F. Calvo (eds.) Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology, Routledge.

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Hans Reichenbach

Eberhardt, F. (2011). Reliability via Synthetic A Priori - Reichenbach's Doctoral Thesis on Probability. In Synthese, 181(1):125-136, Springer.

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Eberhardt, F. & Glymour, C. (2011). Hans Reichenbach's Probability Logic. In D. M. Gabbay, J. Woods & S. Hartmann (eds.), Handbook of the History of Logic, Vol. 10, Elsevier.

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Glymour, C. & Eberhardt, F. (2008). Hans Reichenbach. Entry in Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.

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Eberhardt, F. & Glymour, C. (2008). The Concept of Probability in the Mathematical Representation of Reality. Translation of Hans Reichenbach's doctoral thesis, Open Court.

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general machine learning / data mining

Bryan, B., Eberhardt, F. & Faloutsos, C. (2008). Compact Similarity Joins. In Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), IEEE: 346-355.

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Autexier, S., Eberhardt, F., Hutter, D., Kohlhase, M. & Angelhache, R. (2003). Distributed Knowledge Management and Version Control. In Information Society Technologies Programme, Report n. D5.a

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none of the above

Glymour, C., Danks, D., Eberhardt, F., Glymour, B., Ramsey, J., Scheines, R., Spirtes, P., Teng, C. & Zhang, J. (2010). Actual Causation: A Stone Soup Essay. In Synthese 175(2):169-192, Springer.

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drafts and submissions

Hyttinen, A., Eberhardt, F. and Hoyer, P. O. (submitted 10/2011). Learning linear cyclic causal models with latent variables.

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Picture: tilework in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, 2009