Doron J. Shahar

On Which Variable(s) Should We Condition to Remove Confounding Bias?

Eyal Shahar & Doron J. Shahar · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2015

Using causal diagrams and an axiomatization of causality, we examined the well-known claim that conditioning on confounders (“adjustment” for confounders) is sufficient to remove confounding bias. We show that this advice is poorly stated and is incomplete. To remove confounding...