Sentence examples for a confound of from inspiring English sources

This measure is also useful in ruling out a confound of spatial ability as the underlying variable between mechanism understanding and mathematical strategy use.

Gaining access to medication naïve patients is also not a completely satisfactory answer because such patients are often symptomatic, introducing a confound of acute mood state.

Note that prior data already made it very unlikely that the results of either paradigm included a confound of the other.

Second, we applied a functional connectivity analysis in order to a) remove the possibility of the results in the parametric analysis being a confound of strategy or non-specific effects of reduction in BOLD signal, b) to identify further brain areas, which are connected to BA44 and are incorporated in the dynamic process of learning sound-gesture associations.

Thus the loss of plasticity is often only a confound of context and not a property of the cell.

However, we suggest that this counterintuitive finding is a confound of geographical area rather than a true effect, reflecting difficulty in travelling to Papworth Hospital located in rural and more affluent Cambridgeshire compared with Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.

These designs do not allow a correct estimation of the factor effects due to a confounding of main effects.

Because the elderly in such studies typically have been vaccinated against influenza before enrollment, a confounding of effects occurs between age, and previous exposures, as a potential extrinsic reason for immunosenescence.

Or to use a Zen phrase, this conceptual articulation is only "a finger pointing to the moon," where Zen insists that there should not be a confounding of the moon with a finger.

Considering depth of sampling there is clearly a confounding of depth and geographic location.

Forsythe, Mulhern, and Sawey (2008) noted a confounding of complexity and familiarity in image processing.