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Biology — Time-varying Confounding

Treatment-confounder feedback over time.

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Time-varying confoundingA0Treatment t0LConfounder t1ADJUST FORA1Treatment t1YOutcomeExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — adjust for `Confounder t1`.Adjust for `Confounder t1` — a minimal sufficient set. Conditioning on it blocks every backdoor path from `Treatment t1` to `Outcome`, and no proper subset of it …

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title "Time-varying confounding"
node A0 "Treatment t0"
node L "Confounder t1"
exposure A1 "Treatment t1"
outcome Y "Outcome"
A0 -> L
L -> A1
L -> Y
A1 -> Y
A0 -> Y