Sentences with phrase «confounded by correlation»
However, these variables would be confounded by correlation as the habitats favourable to cattle would also be favoured by feral cats (e.g. riparian areas), irrespective of impacts of cattle.
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Once the data were adjusted for confounding variables such as family income or disruptions such as divorce, there was a small but significant correlation between longer breastfeeding and better conduct scores, as assessed by the mothers.
The silkscreen paintings confound the standard viewer's relationship to the work by changing the correlation between proximity and intimacy with a retreating subject and projected black patterning.
Statistical studies have debated the correlation between retreating Arctic ice and the negative NAO because it generates a confounding short term warming trend that is contradicted by the longer cooling trend suggested for the LIA as well as observed during the 1960s and 70s.
Hypotheses 1 - 10 and research questions 1 - 3 were tested by computing second - order partial correlation coefficients, controlling for the potentially confounding effects of financial wellness and income.
Such deviations might confound the interpretation of subsequent findings and reveal the existence of gene - by - environment correlation effects.
Significant correlations were followed up by running multiple regression analyses to examine whether CD status or the potentially confounding variables were more important in explaining the observed group effects.