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During the analysis of study data, multivariate analysis (usually logistic regression) can be used to adjust for the effect of measured confounders.
One of the primary troubles in observational studies is what scientists refer to as "confounders" — basically, unaccounted factors that can lead researchers to make mistaken assumptions about causes.
"Given the accelerating rate of Caesarean section globally, this finding warrants further research of a more robust quality using larger populations to adjust for important potential confounders and explore potential causal mechanisms," she said.
Both are lurkers, confounders, ironists, betrayers: in a word, they're spooks.
That means these markers may be less muddied by confounders than other factors tied to aging.
The authors accounted for these differences and adjusted for other potential confounders, but there could be others that weren't measured.
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Mr. Peña called Mr. Berliner "one of the great genre-confounders of our time".
In an ideal world, the fizzy sugar-rush of this song – produced by professional pop confounder, Sophie – would have been Gwen Stefani's comeback single.
Daniel Day Lewis, of course, made a massive impact as punk rocker Johnny, a stereotype confounder who deserts his street-fighting confreres for Omar's charms.
In this way, you eliminate the training confounder, and your hypothesis may be that Kenyans have greater elasticity even without training.
One problem with relying merely on statistics to solve the problem of extrapolation, however, is that it cannot show that an observed correlation between model and target is the result of intervention and not some other unmeasured common cause, known as a confounder.
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