Example sentences for: confounding

How can you use “confounding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To reduce the potential confounding effect of overall RT, raw attention network scores were divided by overall RT and resulting ratio scores were used in the genetic analysis.

  • In epidemiological terms, this is a form of confounding, in which possession of a resistant allele is positively associated with heterozygosity (the exposure of interest) and positively associated with having a favorable disease course (the outcome of interest).

  • In microarray experiments, the original idea was that, with current technology, spots on a cDNA microarray had a number of confounding pseudolinear terms - whose variation from experiment to experiment could be minimized but not eliminated - which contributed to the intensity measurements observed when a hybridization was scanned.

  • If we inappropriately used logistic regression and treated all participants to be independent of each other, the odds of HCV infection among members reporting previous parenteral schistosomiasis treatment compared to those who did not, after adjusting for the same confounding variables, was 1.55 (95% CI: 0.81 - 2.98; p = 0.19).

  • ecological studies") because they control for important confounding variables that cannot be controlled for in cross-sectional studies.


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