Accelerating Causal Inference and Feature Selection Methods through G-Test Computation Reuse

This article presents a novel and remarkably efficient method of computing the statistical G-test made possible by exploiting a connection with the fundamental elements of information theory: by writing the <i>G</i> statistic as a sum of joint entropy terms, its computation is decomposed...

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Main Authors: Camil Băncioiu, Remus Brad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/11/1501