Package edu.cmu.tetrad.search

Enum Class ConditioningSetType

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Enum<ConditioningSetType>

edu.cmu.tetrad.search.ConditioningSetType

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Comparable<ConditioningSetType>, Constable

public enum ConditioningSetType
extends Enum<ConditioningSetType>

The type of conditioning set to use for the Markov check. The default is LOCAL_MARKOV, which uses the parents of the target variable to predict the separation set.

All of these options are available for DAG models as well as latent variable models. M-separation is used to determine if two variables are independent given a conditioning set or dependent given a conditioning set, which is a correct procedure in both cases. The conditioning set is the set of variables that are conditioned on in the independence test.

Version:

$Id: $Id

Author:

josephramsey

See Also:

• MarkovCheck

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Enum

Enum.EnumDesc<E extends Enum<E>>

Enum Constant Summary

Enum Constants

Enum Constant	Description
GLOBAL_MARKOV	Testing all possible independence facts implied by the graph.
LOCAL_MARKOV	Testing independence facts implied by the graph, conditioning on the parents of each variable in the graph.
MARKOV_BLANKET	Conditioning on the Markov blanket of each variable in the graph.
ORDERED_LOCAL_MARKOV	Testing independence facts implied by the graph, conditioning on the parents of each variable in the graph, in a causal order of the graph.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static ConditioningSetType	valueOf(String name)	Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name.
static ConditioningSetType[]	values()	Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum

compareTo, describeConstable, equals, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Enum Constant Details

GLOBAL_MARKOV

public static final ConditioningSetType GLOBAL_MARKOV

Testing all possible independence facts implied by the graph. Some independence facts obtained in this way may be for implied dependencies.

LOCAL_MARKOV

public static final ConditioningSetType LOCAL_MARKOV

Testing independence facts implied by the graph, conditioning on the parents of each variable in the graph. Some independence facts obtained in this way may be for implied dependencies.

MARKOV_BLANKET

public static final ConditioningSetType MARKOV_BLANKET

Conditioning on the Markov blanket of each variable in the graph. These are all conditional independence facts, so no conditional dependence facts will be listed if this option is selected.

ORDERED_LOCAL_MARKOV

public static final ConditioningSetType ORDERED_LOCAL_MARKOV

Testing independence facts implied by the graph, conditioning on the parents of each variable in the graph, in a causal order of the graph. Some independence facts obtained in this way may be for implied dependencies.

Method Details

values

public static ConditioningSetType[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.

Returns:

an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static ConditioningSetType valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this class. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:

name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

Returns:

the enum constant with the specified name

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this enum class has no constant with the specified name

NullPointerException - if the argument is null