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Directed acyclic graph depicting the relationship between outcome Y, exposure X, missingness indicator for the outcome or exposure Rind, and potential auxiliary variable Z. Lines indicate causally related variables, with arrows indicating the direction of the causal relationship; absent lines represent variables with no direct causal relation
