//Add the description.md of the data file pair0003
Cause-effect is a growing database with two-variable cause-effect pairs
created at Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany.
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Some pairs are highdimensional, for machine readability the relevant information about this is coded in Meta-data.
Meta-data contains the following information:
number of pair | 1st column of cause | last column of cause | 1st column of effect | last column of effect | dataset weight
The dataset weight should be used for calculating average performance of causal inference methods
to avoid a bias introduced by having multiple copies of essentially the same data (for example,
the pairs 56-63).
When you use this data set in a publication, please cite the following paper (which
also contains much more detailed information regarding this data set in the supplement):
J. M. Mooij, J. Peters, D. Janzing, J. Zscheischler, B. Schoelkopf
"Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks"
Journal of Machine Learning Research 17(32):1-102, 2016
NOTE: pair0001 - pair0041 are taken from the UCI Machine Learning Repository:
Asuncion, A. & Newman, D.J. (2007). UCI Machine Learning Repository [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html]. Irvine, CA: University of California, School of Information and Computer Science.
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Overview over all data pairs.
var 1 var 2 dataset ground truth
pair0001 Altitude Temperature DWD ->
pair0002 Altitude Precipitation DWD ->
pair0003 Longitude Temperature DWD ->
pair0004 Altitude Sunshine hours DWD ->
Information for pairs0003:
DWD data (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
data was taken at 349 stations
taken from
http://www.dwd.de/bvbw/appmanager/bvbw/dwdwwwDesktop/?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=_dwdwww_klima_umwelt_klimadaten_deutschland&T82002gsbDocumentPath=Navigation%2FOeffentlichkeit%2FKlima__Umwelt%2FKlimadaten%2Fkldaten__kostenfrei%2Fausgabe__mittelwerte__node.html__nnn%3Dtrue
more recent link (Jan 2010):
http://www.dwd.de/bvbw/appmanager/bvbw/dwdwwwDesktop/?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=_dwdwww_klima_umwelt_klimadaten_deutschland&T82002gsbDocumentPath=Navigation%2FOeffentlichkeit%2FKlima__Umwelt%2FKlimadaten%2Fkldaten__kostenfrei%2Fausgabe__mittelwerte__node.html__nnn%3Dtrue
x: longitude
y: temperature (averaged over 1961-1990)
ground truth:
x --> y