Regression model
Frontdoor Adjustment (Frontdoor Criterion)
Frontdoor adjustment is Judea Pearl's graphical identification strategy, introduced in 1995, that recovers the causal effect of a treatment on an outcome through a fully mediating variable even when an unobserved confounder sits between the treatment and the outcome. It is the go-to tool when the backdoor criterion cannot be satisfied because the confounder is unmeasured.
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Sources
- Pearl, J. (1995). Causal Diagrams for Empirical Research. Biometrika, 82(4), 669-688. DOI: 10.1093/biomet/82.4.669 ↗
- Pearl, J. (2009). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521895606