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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 221 1 b vii Solution by
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None of the three coefficients has a causal interpretation. The coefficient is unavoidably confounded by unmeasured . Conditioning on the collider opens paths through for both and , so adding all measured regressors does not repair the bias.
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