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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 221 3 iv Solution by
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Let be a Markov blanket of the treatment inside , and write the remaining adjustment variables as . By definition,The sufficiency of givesApply the contraction axiom for conditional independence with first variable , second variable , third variable , and conditioning variable . It givesThe decomposition axiom for conditional independence then yields . Hence every Markov blanket of in is itself a sufficient adjustment set.
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