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Detecting and quantifying causal associations in large nonlinear time series datasets

Jakob Runge, Peer Nowack, Marlene Kretschmer and 2 more

Science Advances · 2019

doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4996

Abstract

A novel causal discovery method for estimating nonlinear interdependency networks from large time series datasets.

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