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. 2019 Nov 14;19:207. doi: 10.1186/s12874-019-0858-x

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the conditional (in)dependencies implied by the IV core assumptions. The dashed line represents a violation of condition (b) whereby there is a path from the instrument Z to the outcome Y that does not go through X