causal_quartet: Causal Quartet Data

causal_quartetR Documentation

Causal Quartet Data

Description

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

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


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