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confounding

[konfoun′ding]

1 interference by a third variable so as to distort the association being studied between two other variables, because of a strong relationship with both of the other variables.

2 a relationship between two causal factors such that their individual contributions cannot be separated.

confounding [kon-foun´ding]

interference by a third variable so as to distort the association being studied between two other variables, because of a strong relationship with both of the other variables; a relationship between two causal factors such that their individual contributions can not be separated.

confounding

when the effects of two, or more, processes on results cannot be separated, the results are said to be confounded, a cause of bias in disease studies.

confounding factor

one which is distributed non-randomly with respect to the independent (exposure) or dependent (outcome) variable which is the subject of an enquiry.

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