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Biology — Survivorship Bias

Conditioning on survival opens a collider path.

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Survivorship biasERisk factorDDisease severitySSurvived to study entryExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedThe exposure is unconfounded: every backdoor path is already blocked, so the crude association estimates the total effect. 3 variables, 3 edge…No adjustment is needed: the exposure is unconfounded in this diagram, so the crude association between `Risk factor` and `Disease severity` already estimates the…

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title "Survivorship bias"
exposure E "Risk factor"
outcome D "Disease severity"
node S "Survived to study entry"
E -> S
D -> S
E -> D