The covariables that most influence the association between sleep medication use and mortality are those most confounded with sleep medications.
It is the 14 years of apparent dormancy between the two sets of killings that has most confounded police and that led the LA Weekly to dub Franklin the Grim Sleeper.
Therefore, to obtain a suitable control group, we adopted the most recent, non-confounded data (that is, 2001-04 data) from the National Health Insurance research database.
And to look at this in children, we gave them what I think it's maybe the most fundamental problem of confounded evidence that all of us face, which is that we are in the world.
From Pakistan to Sweden to China, the American family that perhaps put the most fun into dysfunctional has delighted audiences - and confounded network and government censors - seemingly everywhere.
In Spielberg's movies, especially those sci-fi and fantasy films where history is not there to trammel his imagination or expose his wayward touch, we find the pure madness of modern America: the delusions, the illusions, the confounded dream.
Myctophids present the most diverse array of larval body forms found in fishes although this attribute has both corroborated and confounded phylogenetic hypotheses based on adult morphology.
The most important insight from this exercise is that under a foraging interpretation of nutrient uptake, the parameter Km turns out to be a confounded mixture of search and handling that is not particularly useful for predicting plant foraging behaviour (Fig. 4).
Most generally, separating the confounded effects of parental origin of the X, karyotype and mosaicism requires fine-scale genotype phenotye correlations with larger samples than have been used thus far in most studies.
Shifting between age-groups, genres and moods, Handler – master of the delayed punchline, the long tease, and the confounded expectation – clearly relishes his role as an artistic maverick beholden to no one.
