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DAG stands for Directed Acyclic Graph. DAGs are commonly used to help people think about causal patterns amongst variables.

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DAGs and all models are wrong motto, what's the implication?

Let's say I have a DAG and I find the right to way to estimate the causal effect of interest (which adjustment to make etc.). Then, I realize my model is wrong. …
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Third Newton's law as a DAG [closed]

How can I represent this with a DAG? I'm asking because I was reading Michael Nielsen's account of causality, and he says that "We can’t have X causing Y causing Z causing X! … And I was wondering how we could fit this thinking with Newton's third law, since it seems that A causes B and B causes A at the same time, and thus we wouldn't be able to draw a DAG for this simple law …
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Fixed effects in DAGs

I think that both fixed effects capture every effect person and item ideology could have, and thus my DAG should be like this: In this case, the model is identified and everything is good. … So, my question is: Is my DAG correct? Or is it possible for person and items ideology to have a direct effect on belief, not mediated by the fixed effects? …
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