Sentence examples for confounding variable from inspiring English sources
noun
An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.
The night suited his methods, because the sun, that confounding variable, was always moving.
The data were then divided into strata for confounding variable (attendance at school) in a series of 2 × 2 tables, one for each level of the confounding variable.
Hence, selection of confounding variable for adjustment starts with identifying risk factors for the outcome.
The presence of ovarian endometrioma(s) may represent a confounding variable in assessing IVF outcome.
Hence, the effect of confounding variable of HPV infection in present study remains to be proved.
We thank Yangbo He for suggestions on calculating the percent variance when controlling for confounding variable.
Stellar density as a confounding variable.
So we get rid of the confounding variable of immigration and we get the same results.
Bone surrogate specimens are often employed to avoid this confounding variable.
Thus, the mode of acquisition may be a confounding variable in vaccine efficacy trials.
We standardized the first confounding variable by selecting crossing structures remote from areas of human activity.
