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- noun Plural form of
confounder .
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Examples
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And the confounders are a sensitive issue if there's a low response rate.
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I think myself that an additional factor needs disentangling, to avoid 'confounders'.
Reaction to MPs safe seat and scandal involvement correlation Mark Reckons 2009
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"Correction for these 'confounders' has been found to attenuate the association between visual impairment and mortality, but the mechanisms behind the association between visual impairment and mortality remain to be determined." study leader Michael Karpa of Westmead Millennium Institute in Sydney said in a statement.
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Todd - you think for a second that Jen gives a shit about "confounders"?
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Data from other countries are so chock full of potential confounders, that anyone who tries to explain that a superior result is due to any specific policy is completely overreaching, at best.
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Despite adjustment for numerous confounders like education, income, and initial BMI, women using both healthy and unhealthy strategies (H+U) gained significantly more weight (4.56 kg) than the N group (1.51 kg) and H group (1.02 kg) over the four year observation period.
Will Dieting Make You Fat? | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes 2010
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That means you need a large sample sizes and information on possible confounders – things that can change the results being reported, if they are not taken into account.
June 17th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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The problem with this study is that it attempts to untangle confounders (things that may be the actual causes of multiple phenomena, such that correlation appears to be but is not causation, because the two phenomena share a common cause) using regression analysis.
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Whereupon he told me how Jesus had confounded his confounders when they brought to him for judgment a woman taken in adultery.
Chapter 17 2010
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Michael Marmot, in his book The Status Syndrome, How Social Standing Affects our Health and Longevity, describes how high social status correlates with longevity and health even when factoring in for income, education and other confounders.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » The Social Pain of Weight Bias 2009
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