Confounding factor

Description of a confusion factor.

In scientific research, a confounding variable or confounding factor is a variable or factor that distorts the measure of association between two other variables. The result of the presence of a confounding variable can be the emergence of an effect where it does not really exist or the exaggeration of a real association (positive confusion) or, conversely, the attenuation of a real association and even an inversion of the effect. sense of a real association (negative confusion).

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