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I’m so excited! Past couple years, I’ve wanted to sit down & structurally* deconstuct Roland Fryer’s 2019 paper on racial difs in police use of force to use as a teaching example** re: #colliderbias. Alas life got in the way...1/
HT @l_farland
*analyze “structure” in a #DAG
HT @l_farland
*analyze “structure” in a #DAG
#ColliderBias^ is rampant in US disparities research that uses admin data like hospital claims, police records. Almost all non-random samples will differentially select by race & other imp factors
^a selection bias with a particular structure in #causalinference #DAGs
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^a selection bias with a particular structure in #causalinference #DAGs
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Side note: Dr. Chanelle Howe (@BrownUniversity) and I explore a different type of selection bias in this @EpidemiologyLWW paper
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Structural selection bias* is EVERYwhere in health disparities, research, y’all! 3/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Structural selection bias* is EVERYwhere in health disparities, research, y’all! 3/
