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Biology — Simpson's Paradox

Severity confounds the treatment-recovery link.

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Simpson's paradox: treatment and recoveryTTreatmentRRecoverySDisease severityADJUST FORExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — adjust for `Disease severity`.Adjust for `Disease severity` — a minimal sufficient set. Conditioning on it blocks every backdoor path from `Treatment` to `Recovery`, and no proper subset of it…

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title "Simpson's paradox: treatment and recovery"
exposure T "Treatment"
outcome R "Recovery"
confounder S "Disease severity"
T -> R
S -> T
S -> R