Nguyen, Trang Quynh; Dafoe, Allan; Ogburn, Elizabeth L. - In: Epidemiologic Methods 8 (2019) 1
associated with variables that influence, a common outcome, called a collider , then conditioning on the collider (or on a … variable influenced by the collider – its “child”) induces a spurious association between X and Y , which is known as collider … bias. Characterizing the magnitude and direction of collider bias is crucial for understanding the implications of …