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Math — Causal DAG: Simpson's Paradox

A confounder reverses an apparent effect.

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Simpson's paradoxETreatmentORecoverySDisease 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"
exposure E "Treatment"
outcome O "Recovery"
confounder S "Disease severity"
E -> O
S -> E
S -> O