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What is a confounding variable?

What is a confounding variable? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (statistics) An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.
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We thank Yangbo He for suggestions on calculating the percent variance when controlling for confounding variable.
Hence, selection of confounding variable for adjustment starts with identifying risk factors for the outcome.
Hence, the effect of confounding variable of HPV infection in present study remains to be proved.
Discussions of group and cooperative learning have often ignored individual difference as potential confounding variable.
So we get rid of the confounding variable of immigration and we get the same results.
The night suited his methods, because the sun, that confounding variable, was always moving.

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