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Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Mason Garrison <garrissm@wfu.edu>
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- `*_mean`: Between-family effects (similar to between-family model)
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- `*_diff`: Within-family effects - the unique contribution of the predictor after controlling for familial confounding
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- **Interpretation**: "The cousin with higher weight tends to have higher height and age"
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- **Advantage**: Controls for unmeasured familial confounders, providing stronger evidence for (or against) causal effects
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- **Interpretation**: "The cousin with higher weight tends to have higher height and age"
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- **Advantage**: Controls for unmeasured familial confounders, providing stronger evidence for (or against) causal effects
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# Conclusion
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Discordant-kinship regression offers a powerful tool for disentangling within-family effects from between-family confounding. By leveraging sibling and cousin comparisons, researchers can gain insights into causal relationships that are often obscured in traditional analyses.

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