MEANING
A rule for choosing adjustment variables that block paths entering treatment without conditioning on its descendants.
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A graph-based rule for selecting variables to adjust for in causal analysis.Use when describing how covariates are selected to block noncausal paths in a causal directed acyclic graph.
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The researchers used the backdoor criterion to choose covariates without blocking the effect they wanted to estimate.
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