U.S. states such as Indiana and Virginia, acting in a completely confounded manner on the issue, essentially gave a shared monopoly over the daily fantasy sports marketplace to FanDuel (now Paddy Power Betfair) and DraftKings when they implemented an upfront $50,000 licensing fee.
It is a riddle that has confounded all manner of unconventional firms, from the bare-footed founders of Apple Computer to the cheap and cheerful folk at People Express, one of the first low-cost American airlines.
The election has proceeded in an orderly and peaceful manner, confounding the prophets of doom who predicted widespread rigging and disruption.
Moreover the SNP loci were physically distributed in a scattered manner, confounding their utilization via PCR followed by sequencing for phylogenetic analysis.
At the same time Vaughan's detractors, who felt he was selfishly hanging on by the skin of his teeth for one last crack at Australia next year, will be confounded by the manner of his going.
But even if impact estimates derived from such methods are confounded in that manner, as long they are based on a valid model, they will likely represent worst case scenarios, i.e. they quantify the impact under the assumption that it is actually due to WNV and not due to the coincident factor.
Other factors were then introduced in a stepwise manner to control for confounding.
Confounding variables were added in a stepwise manner, starting with the most significant from the univariate analysis.
I don't want you to be comfortable with your assumptions about me as a 'woman artist.' " In dress and manner, Ms. Horn confounds the categories of male and female.
66 67 Confounding arises because, following randomisation to treatment arm, patients choose the manner in which they adhere to treatment and the level of adherence; if one patient adheres in a certain way and coincidentally suffers worse depression, confounding ensues.
Further, our sensitivity analysis, where we adjusted for comorbidities in a time-varying manner, did not change the results substantially, suggesting the design itself adequately controlled for confounding.
