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Biology — Causal DAG: Smoking & Lung Cancer

Confounding by age and mediation through tar.

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Smoking and lung cancerESmokingOLung cancerCAgeADJUST FORMTar in lungsExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — adjust for `Age`.Adjust for `Age` — a minimal sufficient set. Conditioning on it blocks every backdoor path from `Smoking` to `Lung cancer`, and no proper subset of it does.

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title "Smoking and lung cancer"
exposure E "Smoking"
outcome O "Lung cancer"
confounder C "Age"
mediator M "Tar in lungs"
E -> M
M -> O
E -> O
C -> E
C -> O