p.285 pipe confounding should be represented as X -> Z -> Y, not X <-Z -> Y

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p.285 pipe confounding should be represented as X -> Z -> Y, not X <-Z -> Y #302

Open go-bayes opened 3 years ago

go-bayes commented 3 years ago

Should be:

The second type of relation is a PIPE: $$X \to Z \to Y$$.

zormer23 commented 3 years ago

Did you mean page 185? If so, it is shown correctly there in the 2nd edition.

RDutschke commented 1 year ago

I can confirm the error reading the 2nd edition in the O'Reilly online reader (unfortunately no page numbers are shown). Chapter 6, paragraph 6.4.1 number (2) is shown as

The second type of relation is a PIPE: X ← Z → Y.