To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Sensitivity Analysis of M-Bias and Butterfly-Bias
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To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Sensitivity Analysis of M-Bias and Butterfly-Bias
M-Bias,” as it is called in the epidemiologic literature, is the bias introduced by conditioning on a pretreatment covariate due to a particular “M-Structure” between two latent factors, an observed treatment, an outcome, and a “collider.” This potential source of bias, which can occur even when the treatment and the outcome are not confounded, has been a source of considerable controversy. We ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Causal Inference
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2193-3677,2193-3685
DOI: 10.1515/jci-2013-0021