Abstract

We consider acyclic directed mixed graphs, in which directed edges (x → y) and bi-directed edges (x ↔ y) may occur. A simple extension of Pearl’s d-separation criterion, called m-separation, is applied to these graphs. We introduce a local Markov property which is equivalent to the global property resulting from the m-separation criterion.

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