This is a skeletal post to work up an answer to a twitter question using Wright’s rules of path models. Using this figure from Panel A of a figure from Hernan and Cole. The scribbled red path coefficients are added the question is I want to know about A->Y but I measure A* and Y*. So in figure A, is the bias the backdoor path from A* to Y* through A and Y?

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R doodles. Some ecology. Some physiology. Much fake data.

Thoughts on R, statistical best practices, and teaching applied statistics to Biology majors.

Jeff Walker, Professor of Biological Sciences

University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, United States