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Causal Quartet Data

Source: R/causal_quartet.R
causal_quartet.Rd

This dataset contains 400 observations, each generated under a different data generating mechanism:

  • (1) A collider

  • (2) A confounder

  • (3) A mediator

  • (4) M-bias

Usage

causal_quartet

Format

A dataframe with 400 rows and 6 variables:

  • dataset: The data generating mechanism

  • exposure: exposure

  • outcome: outcome

  • covariate: a known factor

  • u1: an unknown factor

  • u2: an unknown factor

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