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. 2022 Feb 2;191(6):1092–1097. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwac014

Table 1.

Distribution of L, Exposure A, and Potential Outcome Ya for 4 Different Hypothetical Scenarios of a Confounded Exposure-Outcome Relationship, Along With the Marginal Probability of Exposure and the ATT

Scenario L Logit{P(A = 1|L = l)} E(Ya|L = l) p 1 a ATT
1 Bern(0.5)b Inline graphic Inline graphic 0.16 −0.78
2 Bern(0.3)b Inline graphic Inline graphic 0.74 1.15
3 N(0, 1)c Inline graphic Inline graphic 0.73 0.96
4 N(1, 1)c Inline graphic Inline graphic 0.50 0.71

Abbreviation: ATT, average treatment effect in the treated.

a Inline graphic = Pr(A = 1).

b Bern(Inline graphic) = Bernoulli distribution with expectation Inline graphic.

c NInline graphic = normal distribution with mean μ and variance 1.