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Biology — Causal DAG: Confounding

The classic confounder structure.

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ConfoundingEExposureOOutcomeCConfounderADJUST FORExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — adjust for `Confounder`.Adjust for `Confounder` — a minimal sufficient set. Conditioning on it blocks every backdoor path from `Exposure` to `Outcome`, and no proper subset of it does.

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title "Confounding"
exposure E "Exposure"
outcome O "Outcome"
confounder C "Confounder"
E -> O
C -> E
C -> O