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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a confounding variable" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in research and statistics to refer to a variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, potentially leading to erroneous conclusions.
Example: "In our study, we must control for a confounding variable to ensure that our results accurately reflect the relationship between the two main variables."
Alternatives: "a confounding factor" or "an extraneous variable".
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Stellar density as a confounding variable.
Thus, the mode of acquisition may be a confounding variable in vaccine efficacy trials.
There is something perverse about a notion of diversity that would require us to treat Asian-American excellence as a confounding variable to be (partially) corrected for, rather than a legacy to be celebrated.
We established the HPV status of the cohort using a gold standard test and identified that the presence of HPV was unlikely to be a confounding variable in our analysis.
If, indeed, gestational age is an intermediate but if mistakenly labeled as a confounding variable and consequently adjusted in an analysis, the conclusions can be unexpected.
Moreover, we find that implementation timing may act as a confounding variable, as plants that had recently implemented AMT outperformed those with older implementations.
To avoid introducing a confounding variable in the trauma cohorts, non-accidental traumas (NATs) were examined as a distinct category.
The remaining bias from a confounding variable c is considered to be insignificant if (mathit{SMD}_{c}) is smaller than 0.1 [34].
Today, the primary criterion for scientific classification is evolutionary relatedness, whereas differences in the degree of physical similarity across lineages are often a confounding variable.
Age was considered a confounding variable for the primary endpoint [3].
In addition, animals were supplied with sufficient nutrients to exclude starvation as a confounding variable.
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