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For this reason, researchers sometimes compare the sensitivity parameter to an estimate of measured confounding, a process known as calibration or benchmarking. However, calibrated estimates are not always interpreted correctly, and uncertainty in the estimate of measured confounding is rarely accounted for. To address these limitations, we propose calibrated sensitivity models which directly bound the degree of unmeasured confounding by a multiple of measured confounding. We develop a clear framework for interpreting calibrated sensitivity models and derive statistical methods for accounting for uncertainty due to estimating measured confounding. Incorporating this uncertainty shows that causal analyses can be less or more robust to unmeasured confounding than suggested by standard approaches. We develop efficient estimators and inferential methods for bounds on the average treatment effect with three calibrated sensitivity models, establishing parametric efficiency and asymptotic normality under doubly robust-style nonparametric conditions. 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