Sentences with phrase «unmeasured factors»

Of course, there are many other unmeasured factors influencing student achievement — such as student motivation or parental engagement.

While the study provides risk estimates of associations of lifestyle factors with the incidence of visual impairment, the researchers caution that a limitation to their study — which is present in all epidemiologic research — is that the findings may be due, in part, to unmeasured factors related to both lifestyle behaviors and development of visual impairment.

The authors point out that while they matched the two groups on a wide array of variables, in order to tease out the effects of RLS, there could have been unmeasured factors influencing the results.

It is also likely that there are unmeasured factors responsible for many of the associations found: in particular, it is impossible with this type of study to distinguish between genetic and environmental influences on health.

Limitations include the lack of randomized control group and the resulting inability to definitively make causal attributions to Nurturing Parenting Program participation because of other unmeasured factors that could be associated with program attendance and concerns about generalizability to other states or the national population.

The researchers can not rule out the possibility that other unmeasured factors may have influenced their results, but say this study «provides a benchmark for dairy cattle AMU in Britain and identifies several factors associated with high AMU.»

Even when there are unmeasured factors that are different between groups and those factors affect the outcome — this study will give the correct answer.»

It is possible and plausible that there is a causal connection but this study can not prove it — there may easily be other unmeasured factors that give rise to the apparent link.

Although we adjusted for a number of potential confounders, we can not rule out residual confounding through unknown or unmeasured factors.

Unmeasured factors, such as maternal illnesses, might play a role too.

For example, it takes into account any unmeasured factors, such as the degree of residential segregation, to the extent that those factors remain constant over time.

The main concern with this approach is that there may be unmeasured factors that affect school performance.

And while we attempted to isolate the impacts of school closures on student outcomes, it remains possible that other, unmeasured factors were also at play.

To mitigate this issue, I used factors I could measure that get at the underlying construct and are highly correlated with these unmeasured factors.

Unmeasured factors may be responsible for many of the associations found, including genetic predispositions underlying both parenting behaviour and poor health.

In contrast, behavioral problems were linked to family structure even after controls for measured and unmeasured factors were included.

In addition, unmeasured factors, such as parental ADHD, prenatal and postnatal anxiety, and depression could act as confounders.15