confounding
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of confound#English|confound
confounding (plural confoundings)
- The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
- (epidemiology) The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.
- 2013, Macera CA, Shaffer R, Shaffer PM, Introduction to Epidemiology: Distribution and Determinants of Disease, Cengage Learning, p.158:
- Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s).
- 2013, Macera CA, Shaffer R, Shaffer PM, Introduction to Epidemiology: Distribution and Determinants of Disease, Cengage Learning, p.158:
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