The phrase "a confounding of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation or event that causes confusion or complexity, often in a context of mixing or blending different elements.
Example: "The study revealed a confounding of variables that made it difficult to draw clear conclusions."
Alternatives: "a mixing of" or "a blending of".
He cannot help but see his aunt's decline as a sudden and sad symbol of the principle of entropy, and the initiation--in himself and others, alone and together--of ways of coping with this crisis as a confounding of the principle; which may be nothing more than a fancy description of hope.
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.
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.
Thus the loss of plasticity is often only a confound of context and not a property of the cell.
We can't be certain how close she danced to, or over, the edge of a confounding set of laws but surely we should extend the same circumspect compassion to all those millions that one might ask for her.
