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A causal-inference condition that, after adjustment for measured covariates, treatment assignment is independent of potential outcomes.
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After measured covariates are considered, assignment is unrelated to potential outcomes.Explain the no-unmeasured-confounding condition required for an observational causal estimate.
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- conditional exchangeability assumption
- assume conditional exchangeability
- adjust for covariates
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The observational analysis relied on conditional exchangeability after adjusting for age, income, and baseline health.
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- conditional exchangeability
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It is an assumption about treatment assignment given covariates, not something proven merely by fitting a regression model.
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