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Collider Data

Source: R/causal_collider.R
causal_collider.Rd

This dataset contains 100 observations, generated under the following mechanism: X ~ N(0, 1) (exposure) Y ~ X + N(0,1) (outcome) Z ~ 0.45X + 0.77Y + N(0, 1) (measured factor: collider)

Usage

causal_collider

Format

A dataframe with 100 rows and 3 variables:

  • exposure: exposure

  • outcome: outcome

  • covariate: a known factor (collider)

References

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Travis Gerke & Malcolm Barrett (2023) Causal inference is not just a statistics problem, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/26939169.2023.2276446