confounding

How To Use confounding In A Sentence

• These analyses depend on a number of potentially confounding factors such as nonstomatal transpiration and temperature.
• Thus residual confounding could not be completely excluded, and the findings could not assign causality.
• Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
• On one occasion, in hospital after an operation, Pegg awoke from his anaesthetically induced coma an hour too early, confounding doctors until it was realised he must have overheard a fellow patient on the ward watching The Guardian World News
• One explanation for these differences is confounding by poorly measured or unmeasured risk factors that varied between communities.
• He could also be volatile, pettish and confounding.
• As far as skulls are concerned, there is one confounding variable: climate.
• Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
• We all know it when we see it but teachers and politicians have found it confoundingly hard to reproduce. Times, Sunday Times
• Consideration of how straight- and contracting-stemmed points might have been hafted is initially confounding.