简介:Detectionandclarificationofcause-effectrelationshipsamongvariablesisanimportantproblemintimeseriesanalysis.Thispaperprovidesamethodthatemploysbothmutualinformationandconditionalmutualinformationtoidentifythecausalstructureofmultivariatetimeseriescausalgraphicalmodels.Athree-stepprocedureisdevelopedtolearnthecontemporaneousandthelaggedcausalrelationshipsoftimeseriescausalgraphs.Contrarytoconventionalconstraint-basedalgorithm,theproposedalgorithmdoesnotinvolveanyspecialkindsofdistributionandisnonparametric.Thesepropertiesareespeciallyappealingforinferenceoftimeseriescausalgraphswhenthepriorknowledgeaboutthedatamodelisnotavailable.Simulationsandcaseanalysisdemonstratetheeffectivenessofthemethod.