DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7709406
title: Cause-Effect Pairs from MPI Tübingen

description: This collection of cause-effect pair datasets was created by the Max-Planck-Institute in Tuebingen, Germany (https://webdav.tuebingen.mpg.de/cause-effect/).

 

Task: Identify for each pair the causal direction using the observed samples only.

 

Summary: 



Size of collection: 108 datasets with 2 columns each of various sizes

Task: Causal Discovery Problem

Data Type: Mixed Data

Dataset Scope: Collection of Datasets

Ground Truth: Known Graph

Temporal Structure: Static Data

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (for exceptions see below)

Missing Values: No Missing Values


 

Missingness Statement: There are no missing values.

 

Collection: The database contains the following datasets.






Nr.
Variable 1
Variable 2
Origin of datasets
Direction


1
Altitude
Temperature
DWD
->


2
Altitude
Precipitation
DWD
->


3
Longitude
Temperature
DWD
->


4
Altitude
Sunshine hours
DWD
->


5
Age
Length
Abalone
->


6
Age
Shell weight
Abalone
->


7
Age
Diameter
Abalone
->


8
Age
Height
Abalone
->


9
Age
Whole weight
Abalone
->


10
Age
Shucked weight
Abalone
->


11
Age
Viscera weight
Abalone
->


12
Age
Wage per hour
census income
->


13
Displacement
Fuel consumption
auto-mpg
->


14
Horse power
Fuel consumption
auto-mpg
->


15
Weight
Fuel consumption
auto-mpg
->


16
Horsepower
Acceleration
auto-mpg
->


17
Age
Dividends from stocks
census income
->


18
Age
Concentration GAG
GAGurine (from R package MASS)
->


19
Current duration
Next interval
geyser
->


20
Latitude
Temperature
DWD
->


21
Longitude
Precipitation
DWD
->


22
Age
Height
arrhythmia
->


23
Age
Weight
arrhythmia
->


24
Age
Heart rate
arrhythmia
->


25
Cement
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


26
Blast furnace slag
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


27
Fly ash
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


28
Water
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


29
Superplasticizer
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


30
Coarse aggregate
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


31
Fine aggregate
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


32
Age
Compressive strength
concrete_data
->


33
Alcohol consumption
Mean corpuscular volume 
liver disorders
->


34
Alcohol consumption
Alkaline phosphotase 
liver disorders
->


35
Alcohol consumption
Alanine aminotransferase
liver disorders
->


36
Alcohol consumption
Aspartate aminotransferase
liver disorders
->


37
Alcohol consumption
Gamma-glutamyl transpeptdase
liver disorders
->


38
Age
Body mass index
pima indian diabetes
->


39
Age
Serum insulin
pima indian diabetes
->


40
Age
Diastolic blood pressure
pima indian diabetes
->


41
Age
Plasma glucose concentration
pima indian diabetes
->


42
Day of the year
Temperature
D. Janzing
->


43
Temperature at t
Temperature at t+1
ncep-ncar
->


44
Pressure at t
Pressure at t+1
ncep-ncar
->


45
Sea level pressure at t
Sea level pressure at t+1
ncep-ncar
->


46
Relative humidity at t
Relative humidity at t+1
ncep-ncar
->


47
Number of cars
Type of day
traffic
<-


48
Indoor temperature
Outdoor temperature
Hipel & Mcleod
<-


49
Ozone concentration
Temperature
Bafu
<-


50
Ozone concentration
Temperature
Bafu
<-


51
Ozone concentration
Temperature
Bafu
<-


52
(Temp, Press, SLP, Rh)
(Temp, Press, Slp, Rh)
ncep-ncar
<-


53
Ozone concentration
(Wind speed, Radiation, Temperature)
environmental
<-


54
(Displacement, Horsepower, Weight)  
(Fuel consumption, Acceleration)
auto-mpg
->


55
Ozone concentration (16-dim.)
Radiation (16-dim.)
Bafu
<-


56
Female life expectancy, 2000-2005
Latitude
UNdata
<-


57
Female life expectancy, 1995-2000
Latitude
UNdata
<-


58
Female life expectancy, 1990-1995
Latitude
UNdata
<-


59
Female life expectancy, 1985-1990
Latitude
UNdata
<-


60
Male life expectancy, 2000-2005
Latitude
UNdata
<-


61
Male life expectancy, 1995-2000
Latitude
UNdata
<-


62
Male life expectancy, 1990-1995
Latitude
UNdata
<-


63
Male life expectancy, 1985-1990
Latitude
UNdata
<-


64
Drinking water access
Infant mortality
UNdata
->


65
Stock return of Hang Seng Bank
Stock return of HSBC Hldgs
Yahoo database
->


66
Stock return of Hutchison
Stock return of Cheung kong
Yahoo database
->


67
Stock return of Cheung kong 
Stock return of Sun Hung Kai Prop.
Yahoo database
->


68
Bytes sent 
Open http connections 
P. Stark & Janzing
<-


69
Inside temperature
Outside temperature
J.M. Mooij
<-


70
Parameter
Answer
Armann & Buelthoff
->


71
Symptoms (6-dim.)
Classification of disease (2-dim.)
Acute Inflammations 
->


72
Sunspots
Global mean temperature
sunspot data
->


73
CO2 emissions
Energy use
UNdata
<-


74
GNI per capita
Life expectancy
UNdata
->


75
Under-5 mortality rate
GNI per capita
UNdata
<-


76
Population growth
Food consumption growth
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations    
->     


77
Temperature
Solar radiation
B. Janzing       
<-


78
PPFD
Net Ecosystem Productivity
Moffat A.M.
->


79
Net Ecosystem Productivity
Diffuse PPFDdif
Moffat A.M.
<-


80
Net Ecosystem Productivity
Direct PPFDdir
Moffat A.M.
<-


81
Temperature
Local CO2 flux, BE-Bra
Mahecha, M.
->


82
Temperature
Local CO2 flux, DE-Har
Mahecha, M.
->


83
Temperature
Local CO2 flux, US-PFa
Mahecha, M.
->


84
Employment
Population
http://www.spatial-econometrics.com
<-


85
Time of measurement
Protein content of milk
http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/Software/Oswald/
->


86
Size of apartment
Monthly rent
J.M. Mooij
->


87
Temperature
Total snow
http://www.mldata.org/repository/data/viewslug/whistler-daily-snowfall/
->


88
Age
Relative spinal bone mineral density
bone dataset of R ElemStatLearn package
->


89
root decomposition Oct (grassl)
root decomposition Oct (grassl)
Solly et al (2014). Plant and Soil, 382(1-2), 203-218.
<-


90
root decomposition Oct (forest)
root decomposition Oct (forest)
Solly et al (2014). Plant and Soil, 382(1-2), 203-218.
<-


91
clay cont. in soil (forest)
soil moisture
Solly et al (2014). Plant and Soil, 382(1-2), 203-218.
->


92
organic carbon in soil (forest)
clay cont. in soil (forest)
Solly et al (2014). Plant and Soil, 382(1-2), 203-218.
<-


93
precipitation
runoff
MOPEX (ftp://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/pub/gcip/mopex/US_Data/Us_438_Daily/)
->


94
hour of day
temperature
S. Armagan Tarim
->


95
hour of day
electricity load
S. Armagan Tarim
->


96
temperature
electricity load
S. Armagan Tarim
->


97
speed at the beginning
speed at the end
D. Janzing
->     


98
speed at the beginning
speed at the end
D. Janzing
->    


99
language test score
social-economic status family
nlschools dataset of R MASS package
<-


100
cycle time of CPU
performance
cpus dataset of R MASS package
->


101
grey value of a pixel
brightness of the screen
D. Janzing
->      


102
position of a ball
time for passing a track segment
D. Janzing
->


103
position of a ball
time for passing a track segment
D. Janzing
->


104
time for passing 1. segment
time for passing 2. segment
D. Janzing
->


105
pixel vector of a patch
total brightness at the screen
D. Janzing
-> 


106
time required for one round
voltage
D. Janzing
<-   


107
strength of contrast
answer correct or not
Schuett, edited by D. Janzing
->    


108
time for 1/6 rotation
temperature
D. Janzing
<-    







 

Files:



pairs.zip: collection of cause-effect pair datasets

ground_truth.txt: ground truth of causal direction


License:



The datasets by D. Janzing stand by CC-BY 4.0

For the remaining datasets, please check individually