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butterfly bias: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

bias when a pre-exposure covariate is both a confounder and a collider, so adjusting for it and not adjusting both leave some bias.

In epidemiology, butterfly bias refers to bias when a pre-exposure covariate is both a confounder and a collider, so adjusting for it and not adjusting both leave some bias. This meaning comes from Ding (2014) in Journal of Causal Inference.[1]

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References

Ding, P., & Miratrix, L. W. (2014). To Adjust or Not to Adjust? Sensitivity Analysis of M -Bias and Butterfly-Bias. Journal of Causal Inference, 3(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/jci-2013-0021

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