Conditions for Non‐confounding and Collapsibility without Knowledge of Completely Constructed Causal Diagrams

DOI10.1111/1467-9469.00087zbMATH Open1017.62112OpenAlexW2076307734MaRDI QIDQ4416170FDOQ4416170

Authors: Zhi Geng, Guangwei Li 

Publication date: 7 August 2003

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9469.00087

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zbMATH Keywords

causal inferencegraphical modelscollapsibilitynon-confounding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

Cites Work

• Causation, prediction, and search
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• A new approach to causal inference in mortality studies with a sustained exposure period—application to control of the healthy worker survivor effect
• The foundations of confounding in epidemiology

Cited In (6)

• Relations among homogeneity, collapsibility and nonconfounding in distribution effects
• Adjustments and their consequences -- Collapsibility analysis using graphical models
• Causal graphs and unconfoundedness
• On the definition of a confounder
• Conditions for uniformly non-confounding of causal distribution effects over multiple covariates
• Confounding, homogeneity and collapsibility for causal effects in epidemiologic studies.

Uses Software

• TETRAD
• MIM

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