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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2018 Jun 19;28(6):1761–1780. doi: 10.1177/0962280218774936

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Directed acyclic graph for a general hierarchical causal model (equation (1)) with U as unmeasured factors, E as cluster-level covariates, (W1., … , WN.) as individual-level covariates, A as the cluster-level exposure, and (Y1., … , YN.) as individual-level outcomes. Identifiability (Section 2.3) will require additional assumptions on the unmeasured factors U (Supplementary Figure S1).