confounding
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“We cannot look at this single liver case in a silo,” Raffat wrote, adding that “such cases do tend to occur on other GLPs as well because of various confounding factors.”
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
The study is cross-sectional, which means it cannot determine cause and effect and may be influenced by confounding factors or reverse causation.
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
I am sure I am not alone in seeking clarity around the issue of the exodus of local talent to Missouri, Oregon State, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada, and even more confounding, USC.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
One particularly confounding and repeated grievance is the film’s title.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
