Sentence examples for slight confounding from inspiring English sources

However, fitting the interaction model broadened the credible intervals of the infectivity parameter estimates (Table 1), indicating (unsurprisingly) slight confounding between the 4 infectivity and susceptibility parameters.

It should be noted that, in the United States, trastuzumab was approved for adjuvant treatment of breast cancer patients in November 2006, and thus the lack of anti-HER2 treatment data may have only a slight confounding effect.

Their influences show in Mr. Meireles's earliest works, life-size reconstructions of room corners with slight, perceptually confounding alterations where the walls meet.

There appeared to be some slight negative confounding by social support from and to children as the significance rose again after adjusting for these.

This might have happened in three of the few studies combining both stressors, which observed a slight negative confounding, including a recent study of our group that focused on NO2 and adjusted for outdoor traffic Lnight as the only available exposure marker (de Kluizenaar et al. 2007; Foraster et al. 2014; Sørensen et al. 2012).

The slight increase confounded analysts' expectations that the index would slip below the 50-point mark, which separates expansion from contraction.

Situations like this could account for the slight worsening of confounding control in the 4-digit ICD-9 aggregation compared with the base case (up to 5-digit ICD-9).

Unemployment in Germany fell this month, confounding predictions of a slight rise.

Therefore unmeasured confounding may explain the slight increased risk for spontaneous abortion with any antiepileptic drug use (among women both with and without epilepsy).

Furthermore, the slight association was likely due to confounding with number of households, since VHWs further from the hospital covered, on average, more households.

Adjustment for active tobacco smoke led to a slight increase in the effect estimate; thus, residual confounding is unlikely to overestimate the effects.