confounding variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconfoundandvariable
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confound
verb[T]
uk/kənˈfaʊnd/us/kənˈfaʊnd/
to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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(Definition ofconfoundandvariablefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofconfounding variable
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This study also provides a perspective on another importantconfoundingvariablein victimization impact studies: preexisting symptoms.
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A reader of the review is led to conclude that the research results were owing to aconfoundingvariable, and therefore should be discarded.
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Aconfoundingvariableis a risk factor for the disease being studied that has an association with the exposure of interest.
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The presence of stressful life events was used as a potentialconfoundingvariable.
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In addition, sentences were constructed so that real world event probability was eliminated as aconfoundingvariable, by counterbalancing assignment of actors and actions.
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Therefore, the variable 'year' was taken into account as a potentialconfoundingvariableof 'fish size' in further analyses (see below).
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The reasons for this are multifactorial, although co-existing disease is likely to be aconfoundingvariable.
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One potentialconfoundingvariableis the location of the selected words in the sentence.
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The number of hosts examined, or sampling effort, is included as a potentialconfoundingvariable.
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Instead, it has been thought better to study cognitive processes in a vacuum away from this ill-defined and difficult to control,confoundingvariable.
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In most applications of the epistemic argument, long-run uncertainty is not the relevantconfoundingvariable; on close examination the epistemic argument tends to trade on other principles altogether.
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Similarly, in the case of tests using aural prompts, memory becomes aconfoundingvariable.
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We then added each potentiallyconfoundingvariableindependently to the model to assess its effect on the estimated vaccine effectiveness.
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The crossover design eradicates thisconfoundingvariableby applying the treatment sequentially to the same subject.
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This is an occasion for checking the correctness of the experimental hypothesis, the presence of aconfoundingvariable, or the appropriateness of the experimental design, task or procedure.
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These changes in correlation may seem a nuisance, aconfoundingvariablein the search for a more complete characterization of the new mental kinematics.
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Thisconfoundingvariablewas thus taken into account in our analyses.
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Importantly, neither have jurisdiction-wide assertive community treatment that could act as aconfoundingvariablein assessing health service use.
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To control for this possibleconfoundingvariable, the number of phonologically ambiguous characters and the distribution of stroke complexity were made approximately equal across frequency conditions.
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