Technical note: Incorporating expert domain knowledge into causal structure discovery workflows

• Published in: Biogeosciences Vol. 19; no. 8; pp. 2095 - 2099
• Main Authors: Mäkelä, Jarmo, Melkas, Laila, Mammarella, Ivan, Nieminen, Tuomo, Chandramouli, Suyog, Savvides, Rafael, Puolamäki, Kai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 19.04.2022; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Algorithms; Biosphere; Domains; Knowledge; Noise; Subject specialists; Variables

In this note, we argue that the outputs of causal discovery algorithms should not usually be considered end results but rather starting points and hypotheses for further study. The incentive to explore this topic came from a recent study by Krich et al. (2020), which gives a good introduction to est...