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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Public Health. 2013 Aug 8;103(0 1):S152–S166. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301327

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Examples of directed acyclic graphs containing a “collider” (the common effect of two or more causes).33 Conditioning on observing a collider alters the apparent covariation among the causes; for example, two independent causes that are uncorrelated when all observations are considered can appear to be negatively correlated when only observations containing the collider are considered.