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Causal diagrams for a randomized controlled trial (A) and an observational study (B). A, binary treatment assignment/exposure; U, unmeasured confounders; W, confounders; Wg, confounder(s) that affect(s) the treatment assignment; WQ, baseline prognostic covariates; Y, outcome.
