Collider simulation
# Setting seed for reproducibility set.seed(123) # Number of observations n = 1000 # Generating independent variables X1 and X2 X1 = rnorm(n) X2 = rnorm(n) # Positive Correlation Scenario # Collider positively influenced by both X1 and X2 Collider_Positive = X1 + X2 + rnorm(n) # Negative Correlation Scenario # Collider positively influenced by X1 and negatively by X2 Collider_Negative = X1 - X2 + rnorm(n) # Checking correlations # Before conditioning cat("Correlation between X1 and X2 before conditioning: ", cor(X1, X2), "\n") # After conditioning - Positive Scenario cat("Positive Scenario - After conditioning on the collider: ", cor(X1[Collider_Positive > median(Collider_Positive)], X2[Collider_Positive > median(Collider_Positive)]), "\n") # After conditioning - Negative Scenario cat("Negative Scenario - After conditioning on the collider: ", cor(X1[Collider_Negative > median(Collider_Negative)], ...