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arXiv 0711.2855physics.data-anphysics.bio-phphysics.geo-ph
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减轻测量噪声对Granger因果关系的影响

Mitigating the effects of measurement noise on Granger causality

Hariharan Nalatore, Govindan Rangarajan, Mingzhou Ding

摘要:

在过去的几年里,计算二元实验观测时间序列之间的Granger因果关系受到了越来越多的关注。这种因果关系,如果正确估计,可以产生显着的洞察力的动态组织的系统正在调查。由于实验测量不可避免地受到噪声的污染,因此重要的是要了解这种噪声对格兰杰因果关系估计的影响。本文的第一个目标是提供一个分析和数值分析这个问题。具体来说,我们表明,由于噪声污染,(1)虚假的因果关系之间的两个测量变量可以出现和(2)真正的因果关系可以被抑制。本文的第二个目标是提供一种去噪策略来缓解这个问题。具体来说,我们提出了一种基于卡尔曼滤波理论和期望最大化(EM)算法的组合使用的去噪算法。数值算例验证了该方法的有效性。

英文摘要:

Computing Granger causal relations among bivariate experimentally observed time series has received increasing attention over the past few years. Such causal relations, if correctly estimated, can yield significant insights into the dynamical organization of the system being investigated. Since experimental measurements are inevitably contaminated by noise, it is thus important to understand the effects of such noise on Granger causality estimation. The first goal of this paper is to provide an analytical and numerical analysis of this problem. Specifically, we show that, due to noise contamination, (1) spurious causality between two measured variables can arise and (2) true causality can be suppressed. The second goal of the paper is to provide a denoising strategy to mitigate this problem. Specifically, we propose a denoising algorithm based on the combined use of the Kalman filter theory and the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Numerical examples are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the denoising approach.

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