Sentence examples for may confound comparison from inspiring English sources

To address this issue, we have employed a novel study design, attempting to control for some of the variables that may confound comparison between individual reports of the efficacy of different treatments but without the need for a prospective trial.

Still, economic development may confound comparisons of energy usage before and after the installation of biogas.

Therefore, the data may be more indicative of interesting differences in genetic architecture of gene P3 among robust and brittle strains, but these differences may confound comparisons of their relative mutation rates.

Altogether, these factors may confound comparisons of Ne/N ratios among distantly related taxa; thus it may be more appropriate to make intraspecific or sister-taxon comparisons, in which closely-related equilibrium (e.g. not introduced or range-expanded) populations exist on a "strong-advection" coast and a "weak-advection" coast.

First, because C. lutrensis offspring were much smaller [mean SL (mm) = 22.3 ± 4.9 SD] than field-collected individuals [mean SL (mm) = 46.6 ± 6.6 SD], allometric shape variation may confound comparisons between such large size differences (Bookstein 1991; Zelditch et al. 2004).

Though the most basic requirement for studies examining risk of crashes or injuries is to account for exposure to risk, there are many other factors that may confound comparisons and that ideally would be controlled in study design or adjusted for in analyses.

As previously reported by Armand et al. 10 and Chang et al. 7, the present study shows that therapy-related disease per se is not an adverse prognostic factor after SCT, after accounting for cytogenetics risk group (which otherwise may confound comparisons, since patients with therapy-related disease more often have adverse cytogenetics 25- 29).

The complexity and severity of the animal model, the different durations of VF, and the methods used to induce IATH (for example, systemic vs. selective brain) may also confound comparison of these studies.

However, these methods use different polymers and this may confound a comparison of results.

Qualitative interactions between these factors, and effects of combining chemotherapy and endocrine therapies, may confound treatment comparison.

This means parity and educational level may confound the comparison between Belgium and the Netherlands.