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Not surprising, since mutual information is a fundamentally non-causal concept. This is easily seen by nothing that the mutual information of X and Y is the sam
by CrazyStat 7y ago
Not surprising, since mutual information is a fundamentally non-causal concept. This is easily seen by nothing that the mutual information of X and Y is the same as the mutual information of Y and X, which means that mutual information can't distinguish between "X causes Y" and "Y causes X".
- skat20phys 7y agoThere are causal accounts that use mutual information and its variants though. A lot of them introduce notions of directed mutual information and other similar concepts.