causal_confounding {quartets}

Confounder Data

Description

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

D'Agostino McGowan L, Barrett M (2023). Causal inference is not a statistical problem. Preprint arXiv:2304.02683v1.