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Apply Meek closure to a PDAG

Source: R/operations.R
meek_closure.Rd

Applies Meek's orientation rules (R1–R4) repeatedly to a PDAG until no more orientations are implied.

Usage

meek_closure(cg)

Arguments

cg

A caugi object. Must be PDAG-compatible.

Value

A caugi object of class "PDAG" that is closed under Meek's rules.

References

C. Meek (1995). Causal inference and causal explanation with background knowledge. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-95), pp. 403–411. Morgan Kaufmann.

See also

Other operations: condition_marginalize(), dag_from_pdag(), exogenize(), latent_project(), moralize(), mutate_caugi(), normalize_latent_structure(), skeleton()

Examples

pdag <- caugi(
  A %---% B,
  A %-->% C,
  C %-->% B,
  class = "PDAG"
)
mpdag <- meek_closure(pdag)
edges(mpdag)
#>      from   edge     to
#>    <char> <char> <char>
#> 1:      A    -->      B
#> 2:      A    -->      C
#> 3:      C    -->      B