Removing systematic errors for exoplanet search via latent causes

Bernhard Schölkopf, David W. Hogg, Dun Wang, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Dominik Janzing, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Jonas Peters

Abstract: We describe a method for removing the effect of confounders in order to reconstruct a latent quantity of interest. The method, referred to as <i>half-sibling regression</i>, is inspired by recent w...