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M-bias: a standalone construct

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Epidemiology

bias introduced by adjusting for a pre-exposure variable that is a collider between unmeasured causes of exposure and outcome.

In epidemiology, M-bias refers to bias introduced by adjusting for a pre-exposure variable that is a collider between unmeasured causes of exposure and outcome. This meaning comes from Greenland (2003) in Epidemiology.[1]

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References

Greenland, S. (2003). Quantifying Biases in Causal Models: Classical Confounding vs Collider-Stratification Bias. Epidemiology, 14(3), 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ede.0000042804.12056.6c

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