'excluding factors' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to something that should be excluded from a discussion or consideration. For example, "We need to take into account all of the relevant information, excluding factors that are irrelevant to the discussion."
The excluding factors included the previous intensive cytostatic treatment (Ewing's sarcoma in the mandible), the rejection of the previous replacement with fibula or the fact that the tumour had been so extensive that it was removed purely for palliative reasons (e.g. a very large osteosarcoma).
We selected the best model by subsequently excluding factors with p > 0.2 in the likelihood-ratio test from the full model, until no more factors could be excluded.
Excluding factors with low correlations and allowing for several correlated variances resulted in a good fitting model explaining 95% of the variance in the data.
In the present study we focus on three of these, excluding factors like, for example, wind conditions and water availability for cooling of power plants.
The final regression model was obtained by excluding factors with the highest p value, sequentially, until all remaining factors met p < 0.05.
There were no other excluding factors that may have omitted patients with renal disease or biased their enrollment in the trial.
Previous treatment was not an excluding factor.
aPositivity in CCP or MCV was considered as excluding factor in controls.
The presence of vaginal discharge was not quite strong enough to be considered a definitive excluding factor.
The presence of SNPs in most of the reference genes investigated should not be an excluding factor and SNPs probably exist in all genes.
The breakpoint excluding factor 1 from this line was located in between markers Antp and CG31195, but not precisely determined at this early step of the mapping.
