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Causal diagram depicting unobserved confounding by U and W and the negative control outcome Z, where A represents exposure; Y represents outcome; U and W represent unobserved predictors of Z and A, respectively; C represents observed confounders; and {Y0, Y1} are counterfactual outcomes for different exposure values.
