blog/2017-07-05-confounding

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Rebecca Barter - Confounding in causal inference: what is it, and what to do about it?

An introduction to the field of causal inference and the issues surrounding confounding.

https://www.rebeccabarter.com/blog/2017-07-05-confounding

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Responding to your footnote, I recently just figured out how to make a shortcut for the independence symbol in Quarto!

Using a .content-hidden block and some \newcommand statements in LaTeX we can do some LaTeX preamble -like things — for example below I wrote shortcuts for myself to make \E the double-struck E for expectation and \independent to be the usual independent symbol (which I learned an easier way to make from here).

It's not really a pre-amble, though, since we're limited to statements that work in the context of MathJax.

::: {.content-hidden} $$ \newcommand{\E}[0]{\mathbb E}

% create conditionally independent symbol: \newcommand\independent{\perp!!!\perp} $$ :::

However, I also just learned about extensions to MathJax, so while you can't just \usepackage{} in MathJax, in Quarto what you can do is write:

<script>
window.MathJax = {
  loader: {load: ['[tex]/cancel']},
  tex: {packages: {'[+]': ['cancel']}}
};
</script>

Which I learned from here when I was trying to figure out how to indicate some cancellations yesterday.