The estimated causal effect on the variance based on the front-door criterion in Gaussian linear structural equation models: an unbiased estimator with the exact variance
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Causal effect; Front-door criterion; Path diagram; Regression coefficient; Structural causal model (SCM); Total effect;All these keywords.
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