The phrase "ability to control for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in research or statistical contexts to indicate the capacity to account for or adjust variables in an analysis.
Example: "The study demonstrated the ability to control for confounding variables, ensuring more accurate results."
Alternatives: "capacity to account for" or "ability to adjust for".
However, its ability to control for recurrence of local disease required confirmation in a randomised controlled trial.
Edmark argues that the difference-in-difference-in-difference estimator is valid due to its ability to control for migration trends within districts.
Despite our ability to control for a large number of potential confounders, we could not know of other comorbidities, including psychological, that might also be confounders, and we cannot exclude the possible influence of these since our study was observational.
Despite our ability to control for a large number of potential confounders, we could not assess these comprehensively, and did not investigate other psychosomatic diseases that might be confounding variables.
The need to qualify findings and/or limit their scope can be attributed to measurement problems, selection bias, and the lack of ability to control for all relevant variables.
For earned major we find no effect of HOPE on the probability of being a STEM major if we do not control for student quality; the ability to control for SAT score is thus an important feature of our data.
This limits the ability to control for differences in doses used when undertaking meta-analyses.
Strengths of this study include the ability to control for important confounders, specifically tobacco use.
These studies varied widely in design, case definition, and ability to control for social class influences.
However, their ability to control for differences was limited to variables that were available or measurable.
The major power of the approach is the ability to control for confounding.
