confounding factor

collocation in English

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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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factor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfæk.tər/
us
/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition ofconfoundandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconfounding factor

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Anotherconfoundingfactoris the lack of rigour in assaying the endpoint of maturation - the production of a fertilizable egg.
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This increase was expected to improve the power of statistical tests, albeit at the cost of introducing year-to-year variation as aconfoundingfactor.
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The case mix of patients in some reviews includes some unstable anginas, which constitutes a potentialconfoundingfactorin our review.
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Survivorship bias is another potentialconfoundingfactorwhen interpreting these results.
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One potentialconfoundingfactorfor this discrepancy lies in the diverse scales used to evaluate the negative symptoms.
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Here, we evaluated whether local variability in parasite communities can be aconfoundingfactorin the identification of fish stocks.
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Assumptions like a direct and positive correlation between adult stature/canopy position, mechanical stability and shade intolerance may be aconfoundingfactor.
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Aconfoundingfactoris that differences between cognitive states (of the same psychological type) are differences in their intentional objects ("contents").
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Anotherconfoundingfactoris long-term participation in longitudinal studies.
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To avoid this potentialconfoundingfactor, we preferred a simple yes/ no paradigm.
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Thisconfoundingfactorwould have to be removed before one could be sure that children were making a metalinguistic judgement.
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It is, therefore, a strongconfoundingfactorin the analysis of costs of innovative health technologies involving learning effects.
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Anotherconfoundingfactoris that syndromes with similar symptoms may previously have been indistinguishable, even though their genetic basis is different.
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Thus, the broad definition is unlikely to be a majorconfoundingfactor.
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A final potentialconfoundingfactorin the present study was overall severity of illness in manic versus depressed patients.
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Anotherconfoundingfactoron the generalizability of trials is the drug's eventual applicability in different ethnic populations.
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We conclude from our data that partial volume effects were not aconfoundingfactorin our analysis.
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Nevertheless, the insignificance of these effects in our data suggests that environmental similarity was not aconfoundingfactorin our genetic analyses.
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As social deprivation is also a predictor of poor reading comprehension, it is potentially aconfoundingfactorin the association of noise exposure and reading comprehension.
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Since the size (or age) of the host can also be ruled out as aconfoundingfactor, these results point toward a role of competition in helminth community structure.
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