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.