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What is a confounder?

What is a confounder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who confounds
  2. (mathematics) A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable
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That particular confounder was the whole reason the Ranch Hand study could even be done.
Daniel Day Lewis, of course, made a massive impact as punk rocker Johnny, a stereotype confounder who deserts his street-fighting confreres for Omar's charms.
To eliminate hospital teaching status as a potential confounder, we report the results of private for-profit nonteaching and private not-for-profit non-teaching hospitals when these data were available.
In this way, you eliminate the training confounder, and your hypothesis may be that Kenyans have greater elasticity even without training.
For example if a study was examining the association between alcohol and heart disease, cigarette smoking is a confounder because smoking is known to cause heart disease.
In an ideal world, the fizzy sugar-rush of this song – produced by professional pop confounder, Sophie – would have been Gwen Stefani's comeback single.

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