Sentence examples for the confounding caused from inspiring English sources

We were able to control the confounding caused by age and familial predisposition (Crawford, 2003) in the analysis.

Applying such measures to the activity time courses of separated independent component sources avoids the confounds caused by cancellation of summing positive and negative potentials from different sources at the recording electrodes, and by misallocating to presumed locations below the recording electrodes activity that originates in various often distant cortical sources.

When adjusting for propensity scores and propensity score matching we were able to control for the potential confounding caused by the covariates included in the propensity score, that is, patient-related factors, life-style factors, disease history and surgery-related factors.

This allows the partial confounding caused by correlation between covariates to be resolved, and in particular answers the question of whether the slower female healing time is solely due to gendered burn site type.

In light of the minor variations regarding mean adult height among eastern and western regions in Germany, (Jaeger et al, 2001) we elected to employ a set of six individually matched control persons for each patient to overcome the potential confounding caused by regional variation.

In the metaregression analysis, the effects of residual confounding caused an overestimate of the results by 12.9% and, with a proxy for periodontal disease, caused an underestimate of 29.7%.

Therefore, the degree of confounding caused by this deficiency appears to be acceptable.

We cannot exclude the possibility of confounding caused by unmeasured factors, but this is a well-characterized data set that enabled us to adjust for an extensive range of confounding variables, including socioeconomic deprivation.

We did this to minimize the time dependent confounding caused by variations in blood pressure level, which predicts antihypertensive treatment, is itself influenced by treatment, and also affects outcome risk.

This further specifies (9) as (10) L (θ, π, z, K, τ 0, σ, π ∗, z ∗, K ∗ ) = ∏ i = 1 N [ θ ∫ ∑ k = 1 K π k p (y i | τ i, z k ) p (τ i | τ 0, σ ) d τ i + (1 − θ ) ∑ k = 1 K ∗ π k ∗ p (y i | z k ∗ ) ], The latent class model allows us to investigate the individual trends in the change class without possible confounding caused by individuals in the stable class.

We cannot exclude the possibility that the results were affected by residual confounding caused by imprecisely measured covariates or some other unmeasured exposures.