FCI Algorithm

The Fast Causal Inference (FCI) algorithm is a constraint-based causal discovery method introduced by Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines in their landmark 2000 book Causation, Prediction, and Search. Unlike its predecessor the PC algorithm, FCI is specifically designed to handle the presence of latent (unmeasured) common causes and sample selection bias. It outputs a Partial Ancestral Graph (PAG), which faithfully represents the set of all causal structures consistent with the observed conditional independencies.