Topological Conditional Separation

08/06/2021
by   Michel De Lara, et al.
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Pearl's d-separation is a foundational notion to study conditional independence between random variables. We define the topological conditional separation and we show that it is equivalent to the d-separation, extended beyond acyclic graphs, be they finite or infinite.

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