The Presence of a Confounding Factor Will Lead to Failure

question 11

Multiple Choice

The presence of a confounding factor will lead to failure of which of the critical assumptions used to justify claiming your estimates consistently estimate a causal effect?

• A) The determining function is linear in parameters.
• B) The sample is a random sample from the population.
• C) The errors will be homoscedastic.
• D) The model's error terms and the treatments will all be uncorrelated.

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