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Math — Causal DAG: Back-Door Path

A confounder opens a back-door path to be blocked.

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Back-door pathEExposureOOutcomeCConfounderADJUST FORMMediatorExposureOutcomeConfounderMediatorUnobservedIdentifiable — 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 "Back-door path"
exposure E "Exposure"
outcome O "Outcome"
confounder C "Confounder"
mediator M "Mediator"
E -> M
M -> O
C -> E
C -> O