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1643:: A degree of matching is also possible and it is often done by only admitting certain age groups or a certain sex into the study population, creating a cohort of people who share similar characteristics and thus all cohorts are comparable in regard to the possible confounding variable. For example, if age and sex are thought to be confounders, only 40 to 50 years old males would be involved in a cohort study that would assess the myocardial infarct risk in cohorts that either are physically active or inactive. Drawback: In cohort studies, the overexclusion of input data may lead researchers to define too narrowly the set of similarly situated persons for whom they claim the study to be useful, such that other persons to whom the causal relationship does in fact apply may lose the opportunity to benefit from the study's recommendations. Similarly, "over-stratification" of input data within a study may reduce the sample size in a given stratum to the point where generalizations drawn by observing the members of that stratum alone are not 1664:: A method where the study population is divided randomly in order to mitigate the chances of self-selection by participants or bias by the study designers. Before the experiment begins, the testers will assign the members of the participant pool to their groups (control, intervention, parallel), using a randomization process such as the use of a random number generator. For example, in a study on the effects of exercise, the conclusions would be less valid if participants were given a choice if they wanted to belong to the control group which would not exercise or the intervention group which would be willing to take part in an exercise program. The study would then capture other variables besides exercise, such as pre-experiment health levels and motivation to adopt healthy activities. From the observer's side, the experimenter may choose candidates who are more likely to show the results the study wants to see or may interpret subjective results (more energetic, positive attitude) in a way favorable to their desires. 1589:, factors such as age, gender, and educational levels often affect health status and so should be controlled. Beyond these factors, researchers may not consider or have access to data on other causal factors. An example is on the study of smoking tobacco on human health. Smoking, drinking alcohol, and diet are lifestyle activities that are related. A risk assessment that looks at the effects of smoking but does not control for alcohol consumption or diet may overestimate the risk of smoking. Smoking and confounding are reviewed in occupational risk assessments such as the safety of coal mining. When there is not a large sample population of non-smokers or non-drinkers in a particular occupation, the risk assessment may be biased towards finding a negative effect on health. 148:
fuel and miles driven for a month and calculate the MPG for each truck. We then run the appropriate analysis, which determines that there is a statistically significant trend that A Trucks are more fuel efficient than B Trucks. Upon further reflection, however, we also notice that A Trucks are more likely to be assigned highway routes, and B Trucks are more likely to be assigned city routes. This is a confounding variable. The confounding variable makes the results of the analysis unreliable. It is quite likely that we are just measuring the fact that highway driving results in better fuel economy than city driving.
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that are currently being performed regularly, but for which there is no concrete evidence of a genuine effect, there may be ethical issues to continue such surgeries. In such circumstances, many of people are exposed to the real risks of surgery yet these treatments may possibly offer no discernible benefit. Sham-surgery control is a method that may allow medical science to determine whether a surgical procedure is efficacious or not. Given that there are known risks associated with medical operations, it is questionably ethical to allow unverified surgeries to be conducted ad infinitum into the future.
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up with equal amounts of city and highway driving. That eliminates the confounding variable. Another choice is to quantify the amount of city driving and use that as a second independent variable. A third choice is to segment the study, first comparing MPG during city driving for all trucks, and then run a separate study comparing MPG during highway driving.
1502:, or new drug. For prospective studies, it is difficult to recruit and screen for volunteers with the same background (age, diet, education, geography, etc.), and in historical studies, there can be similar variability. Due to the inability to control for variability of volunteers and human studies, confounding is a particular challenge. For these reasons, 47: 1637:, 4) an avid football player, 5) vegetarian, and 6) working in education. A theoretically perfect control would be a person who, in addition to not having the disease being investigated, matches all these characteristics and has no diseases that the patient does not also have—but finding such a control would be an enormous task. 1616:
Confounding effects may be less likely to occur and act similarly at multiple times and locations. In selecting study sites, the environment can be characterized in detail at the study sites to ensure sites are ecologically similar and therefore less likely to have confounding variables. Lastly, the
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In statistics terms, the make of the truck is the independent variable, the fuel economy (MPG) is the dependent variable and the amount of city driving is the confounding variable. To fix this study, we have several choices. One is to randomize the truck assignments so that A trucks and B Trucks end
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Let's assume that a trucking company owns a fleet of trucks made by two different manufacturers. Trucks made by one manufacturer are called "A Trucks" and trucks made by the other manufacturer are called "B Trucks." We want to find out whether A Trucks or B Trucks get better fuel economy. We measure
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and may be denied effective treatments. There is a possibility that patients only agree to invasive surgery (which carry real medical risks) under the understanding that they are receiving treatment. Although this is an ethical concern, it is not a complete account of the situation. For surgeries
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A reduction in the potential for the occurrence and effect of confounding factors can be obtained by increasing the types and numbers of comparisons performed in an analysis. If measures or manipulations of core constructs are confounded (i.e. operational or procedural confounds exist), subgroup
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is a process that can assist in reducing instances of confounding, either before study implementation or after analysis has occurred. Peer review relies on collective expertise within a discipline to identify potential weaknesses in study design and analysis, including ways in which results may
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design. Within this design, "groups of people who are initially equivalent (at the pretest phase) are randomly assigned to receive the experimental treatment or a control condition and then assessed again after this differential experience (posttest phase)". Thus, any effects of artifacts are
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assign confounders to both groups, cases and controls, equally. For example, if somebody wanted to study the cause of myocardial infarct and thinks that the age is a probable confounding variable, each 67-year-old infarct patient will be matched with a healthy 67-year-old "control" person. In
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verb "confundere", which meant "mixing", and was probably chosen to represent the confusion (from Latin: con=with + fusus=mix or fuse together) between the cause one wishes to assess and other causes that may affect the outcome and thus confuse, or stand in the way of the desired assessment.
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relationship between the environmental variables that possibly confound the analysis and the measured parameters can be studied. The information pertaining to environmental variables can then be used in site-specific models to identify residual variance that may be due to real effects.
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who used the word "confounding" in the sense of "incomparability" of two or more groups (e.g., exposed and unexposed) in an observational study. Formal conditions defining what makes certain groups "comparable" and others "incomparable" were later developed in
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persons whose status vis-Ă -vis all known potential confounding factors is the same as that of the case's patient: Suppose a case-control study attempts to find the cause of a given disease in a person who is 1) 45 years old, 2) African-American, 3) from
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Confounding variables may also be categorised according to their source. The choice of measurement instrument (operational confound), situational characteristics (procedural confound), or inter-individual differences (person confound).
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sample taken as a whole, such that all potential confounding variables (known and unknown) will be distributed by chance across all study groups and hence will be uncorrelated with the binary variable for inclusion/exclusion in any
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In this way the physician can predict the likely effect of administering the drug from observational studies in which the conditional probabilities appearing on the right-hand side of the equation can be estimated by regression.
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should be the same for the control and treatment groups. By preventing the observers from knowing of their membership, there should be no bias from researchers treating the groups differently or from interpreting the outcomes
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occurs when two or more groups of units are analyzed together (e.g., workers from different occupations), despite varying according to one or more other (observed or unobserved) characteristics (e.g., gender).
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can test for the robustness of findings from one study under alternative study conditions or alternative analyses (e.g., controlling for potential confounds not identified in the initial study).
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of variables that would guarantee unbiased estimates must be done with caution. The criterion for a proper choice of variables is called the Back-Door and requires that the chosen set
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Maternal age is directly associated with birth order (the 2nd child, except in the case of twins, is born when the mother is older than she was for the birth of the 1st child)
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and non-experimental research designs. This type of confounding occurs when a measure designed to assess a particular construct inadvertently measures something else as well.
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Artifacts are variables that should have been systematically varied, either within or across studies, but that were accidentally held constant. Artifacts are thus threats to
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can be verified from the data generating model, assuming we have all the equations and probabilities associated with the model. This is done by simulating an intervention
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The best available defense against the possibility of spurious results due to confounding is often to dispense with efforts at stratification and instead conduct a
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In general, confounding can be controlled by adjustment if and only if there is a set of observed covariates that satisfies the Back-Door condition. Moreover, if
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Higher maternal age is directly associated with Down Syndrome, regardless of birth order (a mother having her 1st vs 3rd child at age 50 confers the same risk)
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concept, and as such, cannot be described in terms of correlations or associations. The existence of confounders is an important quantitative explanation why
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are explicitly designed to identify the existence, possible existence, or non-existence of confounders in causal relationships between elements of a system.
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case-control studies, matched variables most often are the age and sex. Drawback: Case-control studies are feasible only when it is easy to find controls,
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Graphical criteria were shown to be formally equivalent to the counterfactual definition but more transparent to researchers relying on process models.
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in a randomized experiment). It can be shown that, in cases where only observational data is available, an unbiased estimate of the desired quantity
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Neyman, J., with cooperation of K. Iwaskiewics and St. Kolodziejczyk (1935). Statistical problems in agricultural experimentation (with discussion).
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Depending on the type of study design in place, there are various ways to modify that design to actively exclude or control confounding variables:
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are not confounded whenever the observationally witnessed association between them is the same as the association that would be measured in a
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Whereas a mediator is a factor in the causal chain (above), a confounder is a spurious factor incorrectly implying causation (bottom)
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analysis may not reveal problems in the analysis. Additionally, increasing the number of comparisons can create other problems (see
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that contains an arrow into X. Such sets are called "Back-Door admissible" and may include variables which are not common causes of
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Ethical considerations: In double-blind and randomized controlled trials, participants are not aware that they are recipients of
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is such a set, then the adjustment formula of Eq. (3) is valid. Pearl's do-calculus provides all possible conditions under which
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introduced the word "confounding" in his 1935 book "The Design of Experiments" to refer specifically to a consequence of
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Greenland, Robins and Pearl note an early use of the term "confounding" in causal inference by John Stuart Mill in 1843.
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Emanuel, Ezekiel J; Miller, Franklin G (Sep 20, 2001). "The Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials—A Middle Ground".
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of the confounding variable than do stratification methods. For example, if multivariate analysis controls for
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Greenland, S.; Robins, J. M. (1986). "Identifiability, exchangeability, and epidemiological confounding".
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Rubin, D. B. (1974). "Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies".
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Maternal age is not a consequence of birth order (having a 2nd child does not change the mother's age)
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Say one is studying the relation between birth order (1st child, 2nd child, etc.) and the presence of
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Brewer, M. B. (2000). "Research design and issues of validity". In Reis, H. T.; Judd, C. M. (eds.).
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Tutorial: Confounding and Effect Measure Modification (Boston University School of Public Health)
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Shpitser, I.; Pearl, J. (2008). "Complete identification methods for the causal hierarchy".
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because the observational quantity contains information about the correlation between
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Controlling for confounding by measuring the known confounders and including them as
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complies with the Back-Door requirement (i.e., it intercepts the one Back-Door path
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is not a confounder (i.e., the null set is Back-door admissible) and adjusting for
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in the child. In this scenario, maternal age would be a confounding variable:
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Smith, E. R. (2000). "Research design". In Reis, H. T.; Judd, C. M. (eds.).
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Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference
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One way to minimize the influence of artifacts is to use a pretest-posttest
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Higher maternal age is directly associated with Down Syndrome in the child
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In some disciplines, confounding is categorized into different types. In
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These sites contain descriptions or examples of confounding variables.
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Applied Social Psychology: Understanding and managing social problems
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Consider a researcher attempting to assess the effectiveness of drug
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by Greenland and Robins (1986) using the counterfactual language of
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Contrary to common beliefs, adding covariates to the adjustment set
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Confounding is defined in terms of the data generating model. Let
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Causal diagram of Gender as common cause of Drug use and Recovery
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which gives an unbiased estimate for the causal effect of
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can introduce bias. A typical counterexample occurs when
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are not confounded if and only if the following holds:
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Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH)
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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Intuitively, this equality states that 402: 317: 303: 242: 228: 84:Learn how and when to remove this message 68:, without removing the technical details. 2666:Campbell, D. T.; Stanley, J. C. (1966). 2106:The Journal of Machine Learning Research 1876:VanderWeele, T.J.; Shpitser, I. (2013). 1721:All these methods have their drawbacks: 1593:Decreasing the potential for confounding 1851: 1815: 1410:{\displaystyle P(y\mid {\text{do}}(x))} 880:{\displaystyle P(y\mid {\text{do}}(x))} 262:{\displaystyle P(y\mid {\text{do}}(x))} 112:is a variable that influences both the 4842:Kaplan–Meier estimator (product limit) 2757: 2537:British Journal of Industrial Medicine 1425:According to Morabia (2011), the word 204:are confounded by some other variable 27:Variable or factor in causal inference 2851:Tutorial by University of New England 2300:International Journal of Epidemiology 1862:, Confounding, and Collapsibility In 66:make it understandable to non-experts 7: 5152: 4852:Accelerated failure time (AFT) model 2681:Crano, W. D.; Brewer, M. B. (2002). 1080: 893: 739: 466:In principle, the defining equality 295: 277:under the hypothetical intervention 126:correlation does not imply causation 5553:Generalized randomized block design 5164: 4447:Analysis of variance (ANOVA, anova) 2846:Linear Regression (Yale University) 1878:"On the definition of a confounder" 578:equals the conditional probability 34:. For the psychological state, see 4542:Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel statistics 3168:Pearson product-moment correlation 2752:Design and Analysis of Experiments 1609:depend on confounding. Similarly, 25: 5604:Sequential probability ratio test 2606:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2452:Conducting Research in Psychology 2358:Journal of Educational Psychology 5627: 5529:Polynomial and rational modeling 5163: 5151: 5139: 5126: 5125: 2411:American Journal of Epidemiology 563:{\displaystyle {\text{do}}(X=x)} 45: 4801:Least-squares spectral analysis 2632:New England Journal of Medicine 710:confounds the relation between 5296:Replication versus subsampling 3782:Mean-unbiased minimum-variance 1404: 1401: 1395: 1381: 1291: 1277: 1271: 1229: 1211: 1197: 1191: 1149: 1136: 1133: 1119: 1097: 1062: 1056: 1039:, but merely proxies thereof. 978: 972: 966: 948: 929: 926: 920: 906: 874: 871: 865: 851: 796: 784: 775: 772: 766: 752: 667: 655: 646: 643: 637: 623: 600: 588: 557: 545: 520: 508: 499: 496: 490: 476: 419: 407: 352: 340: 331: 328: 322: 308: 256: 253: 247: 233: 1: 5095:Geographic information system 4311:Simultaneous equations models 5523:Response surface methodology 5431:Analysis of variance (Anova) 4278:Coefficient of determination 3889:Uniformly most powerful test 2688:(2nd ed.). 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(January 1998). 2683:Principles and methods of 690:Controlling for a variable 687: 606:{\displaystyle P(y\mid x)} 425:{\displaystyle P(y\mid x)} 29: 5612: 5121: 4924: 4911: 4595:Structural equation model 4503: 4478: 4249: 4225: 3957: 3931:Score/Lagrange multiplier 3537: 3524: 3346:Sample size determination 3307: 3294: 2924: 2911: 2893: 1645:statistically significant 212:causally influences both 135:Confounds are threats to 5579:Repeated measures design 5291:Restricted randomization 5090:Environmental statistics 4612:Elliptical distributions 4405:Generalized linear model 4334:Simple linear regression 4104:Hodges–Lehmann estimator 3561:Probability distribution 3470:Stochastic approximation 3032:Coefficient of variation 2670:. Chicago: Rand McNally. 2600:Epidemiology in Medicine 2404:Johnston, S. C. (2001). 2145:10.1136/jech.2010.112565 4750:Cross-correlation (XCF) 4358:Non-standard predictors 3792:Lehmann–ScheffĂ© theorem 3465:Adaptive clinical trial 2579:Calow, Peter P. (2009) 1531:operational confounding 837:is not correlated with 434:conditional probability 5634:Mathematics portal 5396:Ordinary least squares 5146:Mathematics portal 4967:Engineering statistics 4875:Nelson–Aalen estimator 4452:Analysis of covariance 4339:Ordinary least squares 4263:Pearson product-moment 3667:Statistical functional 3578:Empirical distribution 3411:Controlled experiments 3140:Frequency distribution 2918:Descriptive statistics 2744: 2454:. Belmont: Wadsworth. 2450:Pelham, Brett (2006). 1832:extraneous determinant 1789:Epidemiological method 1757:statistical regression 1683:multivariable analysis 1542:procedural confounding 1411: 1336:is a common effect of 1302: 1072: 985: 881: 803: 734: 674: 607: 564: 527: 426: 359: 263: 101: 5675:Design of experiments 5231:Scientific experiment 5213:Design of experiments 5062:Population statistics 5004:System identification 4738:Autocorrelation (ACF) 4666:Exponential smoothing 4580:Discriminant analysis 4575:Canonical correlation 4439:Partition of variance 4301:Regression validation 4145:(Jonckheere–Terpstra) 4044:Likelihood-ratio test 3733:Frequentist inference 3645:Location–scale family 3566:Sampling distribution 3531:Statistical inference 3498:Cross-sectional study 3485:Observational studies 3444:Randomized experiment 3273:Stem-and-leaf display 3075:Central limit theorem 2745: 2743:{\displaystyle 2^{k}} 2425:10.1093/aje/154.3.276 2197:10.1214/ss/1009211805 1954:10.1214/ss/1009211805 1801:Omitted-variable bias 1515:observational studies 1412: 1303: 1073: 986: 882: 804: 732: 675: 608: 565: 528: 454:controlled experiment 427: 360: 264: 99: 5665:Analysis of variance 5505:Fractional factorial 4985:Probabilistic design 4570:Principal components 4413:Exponential families 4365:Nonlinear regression 4344:General linear model 4306:Mixed effects models 4296:Errors and residuals 4273:Confounding variable 4175:Bayesian probability 4153:Van der Waerden test 4143:Ordered alternative 3908:Multiple comparisons 3787:Rao–Blackwellization 3750:Estimating equations 3706:Statistical distance 3424:Factorial experiment 2957:Arithmetic-Geometric 2777:Handbook of Research 2727: 2549:10.1136/oem.46.8.505 2531:Axelson, O. (1989). 2509:10.1093/ajcn/69.1.49 2322:10.1093/ije/15.3.413 1882:Annals of Statistics 1824:confounding variable 1625:Case-control studies 1600:multiple comparisons 1450:factorial experiment 1375: 1087: 1050: 900: 845: 746: 617: 582: 537: 470: 401: 302: 227: 188:that influence both 186:extraneous variables 166:independent variable 120:. Confounding is a 118:spurious association 5639:Statistical outline 5599:Sequential analysis 5564:Graeco-Latin square 5473:Multiple comparison 5420:Hierarchical model: 5057:Official statistics 4980:Methods engineering 4661:Seasonal adjustment 4429:Poisson regressions 4349:Bayesian regression 4288:Regression analysis 4268:Partial correlation 4240:Regression analysis 3839:Prediction interval 3834:Likelihood interval 3824:Confidence interval 3816:Interval estimation 3777:Unbiased estimators 3595:Model specification 3475:Up-and-down designs 3163:Partial correlation 3119:Index of dispersion 3037:Interquartile range 2750:Factorial Design". 2390:Pearl, J., (2009). 2184:Statistical Science 2123:Morabia, A (2011). 2065:2014NatSR...4E6085L 2045:Lee, P. H. (2014). 1941:Statistical Science 1858:Pearl, J., (2009). 1687:regression analysis 718:is a cause of both 5644:Statistical topics 5236:Statistical design 5077:Spatial statistics 4957:Medical statistics 4857:First hitting time 4811:Whittle likelihood 4462:Degrees of freedom 4457:Multivariate ANOVA 4390:Heteroscedasticity 4202:Bayesian estimator 4167:Bayesian inference 4016:Kolmogorov–Smirnov 3901:Randomization test 3871:Testing hypotheses 3844:Tolerance interval 3755:Maximum likelihood 3650:Exponential family 3583:Density estimation 3543:Statistical theory 3503:Natural experiment 3449:Scientific control 3366:Survey methodology 3052:Standard deviation 2740: 2234:10.1007/BF01326402 1904:10.1214/12-aos1058 1828:confounding factor 1777:Anecdotal evidence 1731:sufficiently large 1553:person confounding 1533:can occur in both 1407: 1344:, a case in which 1298: 1296: 1068: 981: 944: 877: 799: 735: 670: 603: 560: 523: 422: 355: 259: 174:dependent variable 102: 32:Confounding Factor 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5312: 5308: 5302: 5299: 5297: 5294: 5292: 5289: 5287: 5286:Randomization 5284: 5282: 5279: 5277: 5273: 5272: 5268: 5267: 5264: 5261: 5259: 5256: 5254: 5251: 5247: 5244: 5242: 5239: 5237: 5234: 5232: 5229: 5228: 5226: 5224: 5218: 5214: 5207: 5202: 5200: 5195: 5193: 5188: 5187: 5184: 5172: 5171: 5162: 5160: 5159: 5150: 5148: 5147: 5142: 5136: 5134: 5133: 5124: 5123: 5120: 5106: 5103: 5101: 5100:Geostatistics 5098: 5096: 5093: 5091: 5088: 5086: 5083: 5082: 5080: 5078: 5074: 5068: 5067:Psychometrics 5065: 5063: 5060: 5058: 5055: 5053: 5050: 5048: 5045: 5043: 5040: 5038: 5035: 5033: 5030: 5028: 5025: 5023: 5020: 5019: 5017: 5015: 5011: 5005: 5002: 5000: 4997: 4995: 4991: 4988: 4986: 4983: 4981: 4978: 4976: 4973: 4972: 4970: 4968: 4964: 4958: 4955: 4953: 4950: 4948: 4944: 4941: 4939: 4936: 4935: 4933: 4931: 4930:Biostatistics 4927: 4923: 4919: 4914: 4910: 4892: 4891:Log-rank test 4889: 4888: 4886: 4882: 4876: 4873: 4872: 4870: 4868: 4864: 4858: 4855: 4853: 4850: 4848: 4845: 4843: 4840: 4839: 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