Causal reasoning · Confounding

Confounding and Adjustment

What changes when comparison groups have different mixtures of an outcome-related characteristic?

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Why can the crude comparison mislead?

A crude difference combines within-stratum differences with differences in who is in each group. Adjustment asks what the comparison would look like under a common covariate distribution.

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