[Case Study] DAG Terminology

[PhilippBach]

1. Description of the Case Study

A nice introduction to directed acyclical graphs (DAGs), i.e., explaining the key ingredients (ancestors, etc.), maybe with a focus on a specific aspect of DAGs

2. Idea for the data product

• Explanation and illustration of ingredients of DAGS, maybe using some (reproducible) examples

• Maybe setting a focus on specific aspects of DAGs, for example

  • $d$-separation / back-door criterion
  • collider bias / bad controls
  • mediation
  • front-door criterion
  • drawing DAGs with R (packages)
  • $\ldots$

• The data product could be a slideshow or a blogpost/website and a glossary

3. Available resources and references

• Chapter 2 of Pearl et al. (2016)
• Examples in Cunningham (2020)
• Tools: dagitty, ggdag
• Dagitty Website

4. Comments

We can set up multiple case studies based on this descriptions which differ in terms of their focus (see above).