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The phrase "by controlling for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to mean that the effects of certain factors are taken into consideration when carrying out an experiment or analysis. For example, "By controlling for age and gender, the study was able to accurately assess the effects of the treatment."
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Findings from this controlled experiment were unaffected by controlling for a variety of factors (e.g., allergic status).
But most have gotten around this problem by controlling for factors like genetics, smoking and age.
Incorporating longitudinal data could mitigate this endogeneity by controlling for individual-level fixed effects.
Rather, I address the issue by controlling for the time elapsed between immigration and joining SOEP.
However, by controlling for measurements L and FM, we found a moderately strong relationship.
PSM allows group assignment to be completed by controlling for a large number of covariates.
Finally, we explore the sole influence of context by controlling for word frequency.
This will be addressed in the empirical analysis by controlling for wage.
We address this issue in our study by controlling for whether individuals report speaking Spanish at home.
By controlling for grades, cross-national differences in grading cannot explain the found effects of characteristics of educational systems.
By controlling for caffeine use in study participants, John Hopkins researchers found that caffeine-related performance improvement is nonexistent without caffeine withdrawal.
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