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Robust causal inference using directed acyclic graphs: the R package ‘dagitty’
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Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), which offer systematic representations of causal relationships, have become an established framework for the analysis of causal inference in epidemiology, often being used to determine covariate adjustment sets for minimizing confounding bias. DAGitty is a popular web application for drawing and analysing DAGs. Here we introduce the R package 'dagitty', which provides access to all of the capabilities of the DAGitty web application within the R platform for statistical computing, and also offers several new functions. We describe how the R package 'dagitty' can be used to: evaluate whether a DAG is consistent with the dataset it is intended to represent; enumerate 'statistically equivalent' but causally different DAGs; and identify exposure-outcome adjustment sets that are valid for causally different but statistically equivalent DAGs. This functionality enables epidemiologists to detect causal misspecifications in DAGs and make robust inferences that remain valid for a range of different DAGs. The R package 'dagitty' is available through the comprehensive R archive network (CRAN) at [https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dagitty/]. The source code is available on github at [https://github.com/jtextor/dagitty]. The web application 'DAGitty' is free software, licensed under the GNU general public licence (GPL) version 2 and is available at [http://dagitty.net/].
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Babigumira, R., Veierød, M. B., Hosgood, H. D., Samuelsen, S. O., Bråtveit, M., Kirkeleit, J., Rothman, N., Qing Lan, B., Silverman, D. T., Friesen, M. C., et al. (2023) · Occupational and Environmental Medicine · doi:10.1136/oemed-2023-109139 · Cited by 9
“25 We used directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) 26 to arrive at three models.”
MethodHeymer, E. J., Hawkins, M. M., Winter, D., Teepen, J. C., Sunguc, C., Ronckers, C. M., Allodji, R. S., Alessi, D., Sugden, E. M., Belle, F. N., et al. (2024) · British Journal of Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41416-024-02577-y · Cited by 9
“Directed acyclic graphs [21] and evidence from current literature [22] were used to guide the choice of potential set of confounders to include in each Poisson regression model.”
MethodWachtler, B., Beese, F., Demirer, I., Haller, S., Pförtner, T., Wahrendorf, M., Grabka, M. M., & Hoebel, J. (2024) · Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health · doi:10.5271/sjweh.4144 · Cited by 9
Misstatements, misperceptions, and mistakes in controlling for covariates in observational research
Yu, X. D., Zoh, R. S., Fluharty, D. A., Mestre, L. M., Valdez, D., Tekwe, C. D., Vorland, C. J., Jamshidi‐Naeini, Y., Chiou, S. H., Lartey, S. T., et al. (2024) · eLife · doi:10.7554/elife.82268 · Cited by 10
“The freely available web application dagitty (https://www.dagitty.net/) allows users to specify their DAGs and the application provides the set of controlling variables ( Textor et al., 2016 ).”
MethodHasan, M. I., Ahmed, S., McLean, A. R. D., Rahman, A. M. Q., Bhuiyan, M. S. A., Tipu, S. M. M. U., Braat, S., Arifeen, S. E., Hamadani, J. D., Pasricha, S., et al. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-20480-2 · Cited by 9
“Data were analyzed using STATA Version 17.0 (Stata-Corp, Statistical Software: College Station, TX) and DAGitty Version 3.0 was used to draw a directed acyclic graph to guide the adjustment set in our multivariable analyses [18].”
MethodInfluentialSchnitzer, M. E., Harel, D., Ho, V., Koushik, A., & Merckx, J. (2021) · Epidemiology · doi:10.1097/ede.0000000000001385 · Cited by 9
Cox, L. A. (2020) · Critical Reviews in Toxicology · doi:10.1080/10408444.2020.1787329 · Cited by 9
“Graph-theoretic algorithms can be applied to a BN’s structure to automatically identify minimal sufficient adjustment sets for estimating both (a) the direct effect of one variable on another, holding the levels of all other variables fixed at specified levels; and (b) the total effect of one variable on another, allo…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialPauletti, R. N., Callegari-Jacques, S. M., Fornari, L., de Moraes, J. I., & Fornari, F. (2021) · Digestive and Liver Disease · doi:10.1016/j.dld.2021.09.016 · Cited by 9
Goldberg, M. S., Baumgartner, J. C., & Chevrier, J. (2021) · Atmospheric Environment · doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118788 · Cited by 9
Vogelsang, R. P., Fransgaard, T., Klein, M. F., & Gögenür, I. (2021) · Colorectal Disease · doi:10.1111/codi.16022 · Cited by 9
Tumour genotypes account for survival differences in right‐ and left‐sided colon cancers
Ward, T. M., Cauley, C. E., Stafford, C. E., Goldstone, R. N., Bordeianou, L., Kunitake, H., Berger, D. L., & Ricciardi, R. (2022) · Colorectal Disease · doi:10.1111/codi.16060 · Cited by 9
“We used a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to design and interpret our regression models for causal inference [22].”
MethodWitten, K., Macmillan, A. K., Mackie, H. W., van der Werf, B., Smith, M., Field, A., Woodward, A. J., & Hosking, J. (2022) · Wellbeing Space and Society · doi:10.1016/j.wss.2022.100079 · Cited by 9
Pelissari, D. M., Saita, N. M., Monroe, A. A., & Díaz-Quijano, F. A. (2022) · American Journal of Infection Control · doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2022.05.015 · Cited by 9
Eaves, L. A., Enggasser, A. E., Camerota, M., Gogcu, S., Gower, W. A., Hartwell, H. J., Jackson, W., Jensen, E. T., Joseph, R. M., Marsit, C. J., et al. (2022) · Pediatric Research · doi:10.1038/s41390-022-02150-4 · Cited by 12
Meisner, J., Kato, A. B., Lemerani, M., Miaka, E. M., Taban, A. I., Wakefield, J. C., Rowhani‐Rahbar, A., Pigott, D. M., Mayer, J. D., & Rabinowitz, P. M. (2022) · PLOS Global Public Health · doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0010155 · Cited by 14
“net [23] to identify the minimally sufficient adjustment set.”
BackgroundArsenic exposure and respiratory outcomes during childhood in the INMA study
Signes‐Pastor, A. J., Coto, S. D., Martínez‐Camblor, P., Carey, M. P., Soler-Blasco, R., García‐Villarino, M., Fernández‐Somoano, A., Júlvez, J., Carrasco, P., Lertxundi, A., et al. (2022) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0274215 · Cited by 11
“The covariates were selected based on previous studies and the Directed Acyclic Graph using the DAGitty software (S1 Fig—Directed acyclic graph or causal Bayesian network created using DAGitty browser-based environment) [9, 57, 58].”
MethodBulka, C. M., Eaves, L. A., Gardner, A. J., Parsons, P. J., Galusha, A. L., Roell, K. R., Smeester, L., O’Shea, T. M., & Fry, R. C. (2022) · Frontiers in Epidemiology · doi:10.3389/fepid.2022.958389 · Cited by 9
“We narrowed these down by using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) to identify variables associated with both metal/metalloid exposures and sepsis, excluding any that could be causal intermediates (Supplementary Figure 1) (30).”
Borić-Bilušić, A. A., Božina, N., Lalić, Z., Lovrić, M., Škegro, S. N., Penezić, L., Barišić, K., & Trkulja, V. (2022) · Advances in Therapy · doi:10.1007/s12325-022-02378-w · Cited by 10
“We followed the principles introduced by Pearl [15] with operational development [16, 17] and implementation carried out in the daggity [18] package in R [19] [see Electronic supplementary material (ESM)—Supplementary Methods A, for details].”
MethodAmadou, C., Heude, B., de Lauzon‐Guillain, B., Lioret, S., Descarpentrie, A., Ribet, C., Zins, M., & Charles, M.-A. A. (2022) · Diabetes & Metabolism · doi:10.1016/j.diabet.2022.101414 · Cited by 11
Exploring the Lifetime Effect of Children on Wellbeing Using Two-Sample Mendelian Randomisation
Woolf, B. A. R., Sallis, H., & Munafo, M. R. (2023) · Genes · doi:10.3390/genes14030716 · Cited by 7
Children in Denmark with cerebral palsy rarely complete elementary school
Pedersen, S. V., Wiingreen, R., Hansen, B. M., Greisen, G. O., Larsen, M. L., & Hoei‐Hansen, C. E. (2023) · Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology · doi:10.1111/dmcn.15589 · Cited by 9
Craik, A., Gondwe, M. S., Mayindi, N. B., Chipungu, S., Khoza, B. L., Gómez-Olivé, F. X., Tollman, S. M., Frean, J., Tomlinson, L. A., & Fabian, J. (2023) · Wellcome Open Research · doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18650.3 · Cited by 9
“Additional confounders to be entered into the fully adjusted logistic regression model were determined using a directional acyclic graph 22 .”
Cowell, W., Khoury, J. E., Petty, C. R., Day, H., Benítez, B. E., Cunningham, M. K., Schulz, S. M., Ritz, T., Wright, R. J., & Enlow, M. B. (2020) · Developmental Psychobiology · doi:10.1002/dev.22015 · Cited by 10
Buzzell, A., Chamberlain, J. D., Hoogland, I. E., Jordan, X., Schubert, M. J. W., Zwahlen, M., & Brinkhof, M. W. G. (2020) · Spinal Cord · doi:10.1038/s41393-020-00554-9 · Cited by 9
“The R package dagitty implements the DAGitty web application and was used to evaluate the DAG-dataset consistency [23].”
BackgroundMethodOperative approach influences functional outcome after DAIR for infected total hip arthroplasty
Pollmann, C. T., Gjertsen, J., Dale, H., Straume-Næsheim, T. M., Dybvik, E., & Hallan, G. (2020) · The Bone & Joint Journal · doi:10.1302/0301-620x.102b12.bjj-2020-0501.r1 · Cited by 9
““Do not know” 25 (29) 17 (17) -12 (-24 to 0)”
A Dietary Inflammatory Index and associations with C-reactive protein in a general adult population
Hart, M. J., Torres, S. J., McNaughton, S. A., & Milte, C. M. (2021) · European Journal of Nutrition · doi:10.1007/s00394-021-02573-5 · Cited by 9
“The DAG was constructed using the online tool DAGitty [29].”
MethodGonzalvo, C. M., Aala, W., & Maharjan, K. L. (2021) · Agriculture · doi:10.3390/agriculture11090857 · Cited by 18
Meisner, J., Baszler, T. V., Kuehl, K. H., Ramirez, V., Baines, A., Frisbie, L. A., Lofgren, E., DeAvila, D. M., Wolking, R. M., Bradway, D. S., et al. (2021) · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · doi:10.1101/2021.04.24.440952 · Cited by 9
Strobl, R., Harajli, S., Huppert, D., Zwergal, A., & Grill, E. (2023) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1007/s11136-023-03345-w · Cited by 8
“DAGs helped identifying potential collider bias and to avoid an over-specified model by proposing a minimal sufficient adjustment set [30, 31].”
MethodInnocenti, T., Hayden, J. A., Salvioli, S., Giagio, S., Piano, L., Cosentino, C., Brindisino, F., Feller, D., Ogilvie, R., Gianola, S., et al. (2023) · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.09.001 · Cited by 8
Wolthers, S. A., Blomberg, S. N. F., Breindahl, N., Anjum, S., Hägi‐Pedersen, D., Ersbøll, A. K., Andersen, L. B., & Christensen, H. C. (2023) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075592 · Cited by 8
Freedman, A. N., Roell, K. R., Engwall, E., Bulka, C. M., Kuban, K., Herring, L. E., Mills, C. A., Parsons, P. J., Galusha, A. L., O’Shea, T. M., et al. (2023) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms241914977 · Cited by 8
“For all models, covariates were selected a priori based on a directed acyclic graph approach [74].”
Method
Metadata
- Authors
- Textor, J., van der Zander, B., Gilthorpe, M. S., Liśkiewicz, M., & Ellison, G. T. H.
- Affiliations
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Textor, Johannes
- Venue
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2017-01-15
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- dyw341
- ISSN
- 0300-5771 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3685
- OpenAlex
- W2576536258
- Cited by
- 2,295
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 156 · 2025: 409 · 2024: 451 · 2023: 392 · 2022: 323 · 2021: 256 · 2020: 201 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 6
- FWCI
- 35.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Epidemiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Keywords
- directed acyclic graphs, causal inference, R package, adjustment sets, confounding
- MeSH terms
- Data Interpretation, Statistical, Epidemiologic Methods, Humans, Software, Bias, Causality, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic
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