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Two directed acyclic graphs, where 
is the treatment and 
is the outcome of interest. (a) Directed acyclic graph for M-bias, where 
and 
are unobserved and 
is observed. (b) Directed acyclic graph for Z-bias, where 
is an unmeasured confounder and 
is an instrumental variable for the treatment-outcome relationship.
