Confounding Variable
Published in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science • Apr 15, 2005
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Authors:,
Patrick Onghena
Wim Van Den Noortgate
Abstract
Abstract A confounding variable is a variable that is related to an explanatory variable and at the same time has an effect on a response variable that is entangled with a possible effect of the explanatory variable, possibly leading to wrong conclusions about the latter. Confounding may also occur ...
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