Identifying Patient-Specific Root Causes with the Heteroscedastic Noise Model
Complex diseases are caused by a multitude of factors that may differ between patients even within the same diagnostic category. A few underlying root causes may nevertheless initiate the development of disease within each patient. We therefore focus on identifying patient-specific root causes of disease, which we equate to the sample-specific predictivity of the exogenous error terms in a structural equation model. We generalize from the linear setting to the heteroscedastic noise model where $Y = m(X) + \varepsilon\sigma(X)$ with non-linear functions $m(X)$ and $\sigma(X)$ representing the conditional mean and mean absolute deviation, respectively. This model preserves identifiability but introduces non-trivial challenges that require a customized algorithm called Generalized Root Causal Inference (GRCI) to extract the error terms correctly. GRCI recovers patient-specific root causes more accurately than existing alternatives.
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