From the case:
Confounding
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This brief visual tutorial is intended to provide an intuitive understanding of confounding. Make sure to cement your knowledge of this difficult material by answering the quiz question!
A longer discussion of confounding as well as a discussion of bias and interaction is available here: https://xraycomix.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/bias-confounding-and-interaction.pdf