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Confounder Data

Source: R/causal_confounding.R
causal_confounding.Rd

This dataset contains 100 observations, generated under the following mechanism: Z ~ N(0, 1) (measured factor: confounder) X ~ Z + N(0,1) (exposure) Y ~ 0.5X + Z + N(0, 1) (outcome)

Usage

causal_confounding

Format

A dataframe with 100 rows and 3:

  • covariate: a known factor (confounder)

  • exposure: exposure

  • outcome: outcome

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