This shiny app illustrates the collider bias based on the movie star example in Cunningham (2021, Section 3.1.6). The app is based on this template for an Example Shiny App on Heroku.

Update (Jan 19, 2024): App deployment is now done via https://www.shinyapps.io/.

This app has been developed in the context of the project Digital Causality Lab at the University of Hamburg.

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References

Cunningham, Scott. "Causal inference." Causal Inference. Yale University Press, 2021.