Sentence examples for problem of confounding from inspiring English sources

I also remind us that no method should be termed "causal" unless it addresses the effect of other biases in addition to the problem of confounding.

This problem – the problem of confounding influences – is particularly pressing for civil infrastructure where the given structure is usually openly exposed to the weather and may be subject to strongly varying operational conditions.

Despite a century of analysis, this problem of "confounding,"–that is, determining which factors should be adjusted for in any given study continued for many years to be decided informally, with the decision resting on folklore and intuition rather than on scientific principles.

This is the well-known problem of confounding.

We tackled this problem of confounding through several additional analyses.

Our analysis plan takes a robust and comprehensive approach to the well-described problem of confounding in VE studies.

Such analyses would overcome the problems of confounding inherent in observational studies listed above.

Our work lacks detailed data on individual deprivation measures and so could be open to problems of confounding.

Our work lacks detailed data on individual risk behaviour and so may be open to problems of confounding.

Moreover the results of the case control study were confirmed by the self controlled case series analysis, which is less prone to problems of confounding.

We chose to use the self controlled case series design because participants act as their own controls, and therefore some of the problems of confounding inherent to other study designs are avoided.