Package edu.cmu.tetrad.search

Class PcLocal

java.lang.Object

edu.cmu.tetrad.search.PcLocal

All Implemented Interfaces:

GraphSearch

public class PcLocal
extends Object
implements GraphSearch

Implements the PC Local algorithm.

Author:

Joseph Ramsey (this version).

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PcLocal(IndependenceTest independenceTest)	Constructs a PC Local search with the given independence oracle.
PcLocal(IndependenceTest independenceTest, Graph graph)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
long	getElapsedTime()
IndependenceTest	getIndependenceTest()
Knowledge	getKnowledge()
SepsetMap	getSepsets()
boolean	isAggressivelyPreventCycles()
static boolean	isArrowpointAllowed(Object from, Object to, Knowledge knowledge)	Checks if an arrowpoint is allowed by background knowledge.
boolean	isVerbose()
Graph	search()	Runs PC starting with a fully connected graph over all of the variables in the domain of the independence test.
void	setAggressivelyPreventCycles(boolean aggressivelyPreventCycles)
void	setExternalGraph(Graph externalGraph)
void	setKnowledge(Knowledge knowledge)
void	setVerbose(boolean verbose)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

PcLocal

public PcLocal(IndependenceTest independenceTest)

Constructs a PC Local search with the given independence oracle.

PcLocal

public PcLocal(IndependenceTest independenceTest,
 Graph graph)

Method Details

isAggressivelyPreventCycles

public boolean isAggressivelyPreventCycles()

setAggressivelyPreventCycles

public void setAggressivelyPreventCycles(boolean aggressivelyPreventCycles)

getIndependenceTest

public IndependenceTest getIndependenceTest()

getKnowledge

public Knowledge getKnowledge()

setKnowledge

public void setKnowledge(Knowledge knowledge)

getElapsedTime

public long getElapsedTime()

search

public Graph search()

Runs PC starting with a fully connected graph over all of the variables in the domain of the independence test.

Specified by:

search in interface GraphSearch

isArrowpointAllowed

public static boolean isArrowpointAllowed(Object from,
 Object to,
 Knowledge knowledge)

Checks if an arrowpoint is allowed by background knowledge.

getSepsets

public SepsetMap getSepsets()

isVerbose

public boolean isVerbose()

setVerbose

public void setVerbose(boolean verbose)

setExternalGraph

public void setExternalGraph(Graph externalGraph)