Database with cause-effect pairs

This is a growing database with different data for testing causal detection algorithms. The goal here is to distinguish between cause and effect. We searched for data sets with known ground truth. However, we do not guarantee that all provided ground truths are correct. The datafiles are .txt-files and contain two variables, one is the cause and the other the effect. For every example there exists a description file where you can find the ground truth and how the data was derived.

Note that not always the first column is the cause and the second the effect. This is indicated in a meta-data file. Please look at README for further explanations. We also suggest a weighting factor for some pairs which a very similar if you want to calculate the overall performance.

To get all data files at once download all data as a zip file.

Note: pair0001 - pair0041 were taken from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, so if you use these data sets please refer to their webpage. Here you will find their citation policy.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions for additional data sets, please contact Jakob Zscheischler


Data	Description
pair0001.txt	pair0001_des.txt
pair0002.txt	pair0002_des.txt
pair0003.txt	pair0003_des.txt
pair0004.txt	pair0004_des.txt
pair0005.txt	pair0005_des.txt
pair0006.txt	pair0006_des.txt
pair0007.txt	pair0007_des.txt
pair0008.txt	pair0008_des.txt
pair0009.txt	pair0009_des.txt
pair0010.txt	pair0010_des.txt
pair0011.txt	pair0011_des.txt
pair0012.txt	pair0012_des.txt
pair0013.txt	pair0013_des.txt
pair0014.txt	pair0014_des.txt
pair0015.txt	pair0015_des.txt
pair0016.txt	pair0016_des.txt
pair0017.txt	pair0017_des.txt
pair0018.txt	pair0018_des.txt
pair0019.txt	pair0019_des.txt
pair0020.txt	pair0020_des.txt
pair0021.txt	pair0021_des.txt
pair0022.txt	pair0022_des.txt
pair0023.txt	pair0023_des.txt
pair0024.txt	pair0024_des.txt
pair0025.txt	pair0025_des.txt
pair0026.txt	pair0026_des.txt
pair0027.txt	pair0027_des.txt
pair0028.txt	pair0028_des.txt
pair0029.txt	pair0029_des.txt
pair0030.txt	pair0030_des.txt
pair0031.txt	pair0031_des.txt
pair0032.txt	pair0032_des.txt
pair0033.txt	pair0033_des.txt
pair0034.txt	pair0034_des.txt
pair0035.txt	pair0035_des.txt
pair0036.txt	pair0036_des.txt
pair0037.txt	pair0037_des.txt
pair0038.txt	pair0038_des.txt
pair0039.txt	pair0039_des.txt
pair0040.txt	pair0040_des.txt
pair0041.txt	pair0041_des.txt
pair0042.txt	pair0042_des.txt
pair0043.txt	pair0043_des.txt
pair0044.txt	pair0044_des.txt
pair0045.txt	pair0045_des.txt
pair0046.txt	pair0046_des.txt
pair0047.txt	pair0047_des.txt
pair0048.txt	pair0048_des.txt
pair0049.txt	pair0049_des.txt
pair0050.txt	pair0050_des.txt
pair0051.txt	pair0051_des.txt
pair0052.txt	pair0052_des.txt
pair0053.txt	pair0053_des.txt
pair0054.txt	pair0054_des.txt
pair0055.txt	pair0055_des.txt
pair0056.txt	pair0056_des.txt
pair0057.txt	pair0057_des.txt
pair0058.txt	pair0058_des.txt
pair0059.txt	pair0059_des.txt
pair0060.txt	pair0060_des.txt
pair0061.txt	pair0061_des.txt
pair0062.txt	pair0062_des.txt
pair0063.txt	pair0063_des.txt
pair0064.txt	pair0064_des.txt
pair0065.txt	pair0065_des.txt
pair0066.txt	pair0066_des.txt
pair0067.txt	pair0067_des.txt
pair0068.txt	pair0068_des.txt
pair0069.txt	pair0069_des.txt
pair0070.txt	pair0070_des.txt
pair0071.txt	pair0071_des.txt
pair0072.txt	pair0072_des.txt
pair0073.txt	pair0073_des.txt
pair0074.txt	pair0074_des.txt
pair0075.txt	pair0075_des.txt
pair0076.txt	pair0076_des.txt
pair0077.txt	pair0077_des.txt
pair0078.txt	pair0078_des.txt
pair0079.txt	pair0079_des.txt
pair0080.txt	pair0080_des.txt
pair0081.txt	pair0081_des.txt
pair0082.txt	pair0082_des.txt
pair0083.txt	pair0083_des.txt
pair0084.txt	pair0084_des.txt
pair0085.txt	pair0085_des.txt
pair0086.txt	pair0086_des.txt