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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: Electron J Stat. 2023 Nov 10;17(2):2849–2879. doi: 10.1214/23-ejs2160

Fig 2.

Fig 2.

The GCD sampling distribution is centered around the true causal effect with lower asymptotic variance than the CD. Ordinary Least Squares is inconsistent due to hidden confounding. IV (not shown) is also inconsistent because the instrument does not shift the mean of the exposures.