Sentences with phrase «other confounding»

This study includes a rigorous active control condition meaning any differences between conditions can be confidently ascribed to improvements in executive functioning rather than other confounding factors.

As the authors explain in the paper «That divorce exerts a long - term causal influence on the risk for early death is not implausible, but it is critical to recognize that any causal processes unfolding after marital separation or divorce do so in the context of other confounding effects, which are widely understood as selection processes that increase risk for both divorce and poor health outcomes.»

First, although the within - person design of these studies helps rule out the influence of between - person differences, and although we controlled for important within - person confounds, it remains possible that other confounding factors not controlled in our analyses account for the interactive effects of HC discontinuation.

In addition, they often fail to adequately record exposure to violence, including to domestic abuse which, as is pointed out above, is itself associated with other confounding risk factors for ADHD, such as prematurity, maternal alcohol abuse, and maternal smoking; for example, domestic abuse is identified in the ALSPAC cohort by the parental question «Has anyone been cruel to you», a question that renders this cohort unsuitable for any study investigating the impact of domestic abuse on children as it is likely to be very insensitive.

This interpretation is strengthened by the observation that the associations among television and children's consumption of fruits, vegetables, and juices; all meats; and pizza, salty snacks, and soda remained statistically significant in the full regression models, where the effects of socioeconomic and other confounding factors were controlled.

The study is investigating what effect ocean acidification is having on reefs, a tricky problem as other confounding....

Is our RR sufficiently far away from unity for us to be confident that the effect we're seeing is unlikely to be down to biases and other confounding factors?

«[S] atellite - based retrievals will never be able to be as accurate or precise as ground - based in - situ instruments, as the measurements are always affected by other confounding factors such as aerosols, which can never be fully eliminated with passive remote sensing (see Chapter 4).

But clearly given the recent divergence issues (and common sense) so do a lot of other confounding factors.

Their filter effectively removed all analyses examining other confounding factors.

There undoubtedly are other confounding variables.

Since year - to - year spikes in the proxy data may just be noise that brings in other confounding factors, scientists average them out to get a nice smooth graph that is meaningful, not on a year - to - year or decade - to - decade level, but on a scale of centuries.

Individual tree rings (or trees) do not exhibit a linear relationship between (whatever — latewood, earlywood, width) and temperature, as there are other confounding factors — site, aspect, stand density, nutrient availability, moisture, as I explained upthread.

I find it astounding that the authors of the study come to their broad and sweeping conclusions with such a tiny amount of actual data, especially with the indications that other confounding factors are present.

There are a number of other confounding jump cuts, too, that reveal Snyder and writers Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer may have been tweaking the story during filming.

You know as well as I do that there are several other confounding variables that could contribute to performance.

On the basis of weight stability and dietary compliance, the metabolic changes that occurred after 5 wk of the high - protein diet were considered to be attributed to the increase in protein or decrease in carbohydrate content of the diet, or both, rather than other confounding factors.

I can't rule out the placebo effect (or a host of other confounding factors), but I can say that I'm a believer in the daily morning light exposure effect.

Logistic regression models were used to estimate the association between presence of FMc and disease status, while adjusting for age and other confounding factors.

Other confounding factors including demographic data, cognitive status, vitality, mood, physical performance, and use of medication (cholinesterase inhibitors, calcium channel blockers [CCBs], diuretics, alpha blockers and anticholinergic drugs) were assessed.

This boundary can make or break a territorial claim over seabed resources but is often masked by thick sediment layers or other confounding features.

There are other confounding factors researchers must cope with as well, such as industrial pollution and differences in lifestyle and health care.

«But it's difficult to pick up these patterns in less - developed countries when there are so many other confounding variables.»

The study you speak of did control for maternal smoking but not for other confounding «unsafe» bedsharing practices.

A baby who is born early may have more trouble nursing either because of a lack of mature sucking ability or other confounding medical issues.

If Clemson's gonna start doing this in addition to the million other confounding things they do on offense, we're all in trouble.

This estimate is the best available, though it likely represents a conservative approximation because it is based on basal metabolic rates and allometric relationships; furthermore, among other confounds, these whales in Wilhelmina are theoretically eating as much as possible to prepare for winter.

Toller's misery builds to an ending that some will find perfect and others confounding, but either way, it's sure to be discussed.

Including «time played» as a filter variable may bias the data towards open world play styles (or some other confound).

Not exact matches

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

Even if it was a good measure of altruism, the other problems with such experiments still apply, and «experimenter demand» effects are common confounding variables.

This is useful technique that allows the researcher to isolate the impact of the EBC scheme from other possible confounding factors.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Some of the ideas that religion imparts upon politics are good, such as helping your fellow man, but religion is not necessary for those ideas to exist and indeed can confound those ideas when mixed with other messages from the same religion.

A veritable Ego at the summit of the world is needed for the consummation, without confounding them, of all the elemental egos of Earth... I have talked of the «Christian view», but this idea is gaining ground in other circles.

... The sole distinguishing characteristic of Morrison's writings is psychological waywardness — derived, it appears from his unhappy childhood as the son of an aloof naval officer... According to his biographers Morrison's chief boyhood pleasure was defying, confounding, and tormenting other people.

There could be other reasons for his failure of course, but I like to think I confounded him.

At his interrogation on that day he had said «the Act of Parliament is like a sword with two edges, for if a man answers one way: it will confound his soul and if he answers the other way it will confound his body».

Of course, last season confounded everyone — I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I expected anything other than relegation for Leicester, or anticipated a complete Mourinho / Chelsea collapse, but even in a bonkers season some things were as predictable as ever.

In fact there are often methodological problems with such findings, which may reflect data - sets that include very few children with highly involved fathers, significant variation within the samples of children's exposure to other pathogenic circumstances; and the confounding of many types of «involved» father, from the abusive to the devoted (Lamb, 2002b).

All need support, but different strategies are required to engage effectively with these different kinds of young fathers; and — as already mentioned — other (sometimes confounding) variables, including age, residence - status and a history of offending, require different responses.

First, other changes to the school district introduced potential confounds to the analysis, yet the mixed regression design utilizes a within school and between year analysis to reduce some of this error.

Parents need to understand that anecdotes have to be backed up by population studies; there is no other way to guard against biases and confounding variables.

Because type of milk and feeding mode were confounded by each other, examining bottle effects among infants fed by breastmilk only and examining breastmilk effects among infants fed by bottle only would be useful to tease out this confounding effect (Figure).

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

The study controlled for socioeconomic status and other potentially confounding factors.

Confounding is a special problem that happens in some studies that doesn't actually depend on the other types of bias.

One of the possible confounding factors noted in their study was that the experimental group had more of the adolescents living with their parents, whereas adolescents in the control group were more likely to live with their significant other.

Separating the effects of breastfeeding from other potential confounding factors associated with breastfeeding.

Confounding by other known dietary factors was unlikely because the risk estimates were influenced only slightly by adjustments for covariates, eg, the amount of gluten consumed.