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Latent Confounding

Latent Confounding is a type of unobserved common cause in causal graphical models that distorts the identification of causal relationships by generating spurious associations between observed variables.

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2017–2026

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Publications

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On the completeness of orientation rules for causal discovery in the presence of latent confounders and selection bias

Jiji Zhang · Artificial Intelligence · 2008 · 348 citations

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Simpson's Paradox in Real Life

Clifford H. Wagner · The American Statistician · 1982 · 338 citations

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Comment: Understanding Simpson’s Paradox

Judea Pearl · The American Statistician · 2014 · 197 citations

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Spurious effects from an extraneous variable

Irwin D. J. Bross · Journal of Chronic Diseases · 1966 · 183 citations

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Detection of aberrant splicing events in RNA-seq data using FRASER

Christian Mertes, Ines F. Scheller, Vicente A. Yépez et al. · Nature Communications · 2021 · 178 citations · Full text

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Authors

233

  1. DJ
    Dominik Janzing

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

    3 publications · 154 citations

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  2. JL
    Jiuyong Li

    University of South Australia, Australia

    3 publications · 84 citations

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  3. LL
    Lin Liu

    University of South Australia, Australia

    3 publications · 84 citations

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  4. PS
    Peter Spirtes

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    3 publications · 196 citations

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  5. RW
    Robert Weibel

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    2 publications · 70 citations

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Institutions

119

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    709 citations

  2. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    620 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    10 publications

    676 citations

  4. University of Aberdeen

    Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    9 publications

    163 citations

  5. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    87 citations

  6. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    70 citations

  7. University of South Australia

    Adelaide, Australia

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    234 citations

  8. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    430 citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 17 publications · 392 citations

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  3. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

    Repository · 3 publications · 70 citations

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  4. The American Statistician

    3 publications · 639 citations

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  5. The Annals of Statistics

    2 publications · 203 citations

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