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  2. Confounding - Wikipedia

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    An operational confounding can occur in both experimental and non-experimental research designs. This type of confounding occurs when a measure designed to assess a particular construct inadvertently measures something else as well. [20] A procedural confounding can occur in a laboratory experiment or a quasi-experiment. This type of confound ...

  3. Cohort study - Wikipedia

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    A cohort study is a particular form of longitudinal study that samples a cohort (a group of people who share a defining characteristic, typically those who experienced a common event in a selected period, such as birth or graduation), performing a cross-section at intervals through time.

  4. Controlling for a variable - Wikipedia

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    In other cases, controlling for a non-confounding variable may cause underestimation of the true causal effect of the explanatory variables on an outcome (e.g. when controlling for a mediator or its descendant). [2] [3] Counterfactual reasoning mitigates the influence of confounders without this drawback. [3]

  5. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistical techniques are used in a wide range of types of scientific and social research, including: biostatistics, computational biology, computational sociology, network biology, social science, sociology and social research. Some fields of inquiry use applied statistics so extensively that they have specialized terminology. These ...

  6. Spurious relationship - Wikipedia

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    Graphical model: Whereas a mediator is a factor in the causal chain (top), a confounder is a spurious factor incorrectly implying causation (bottom). In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation [1] [2] is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are associated but not causally related, due to either coincidence or the presence of a certain third ...

  7. Virgin Australia Airline crew allegedly sexually assaulted ...

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    Virgin Australia crew members were allegedly sexually assaulted and robbed in one of Fiji's nightclub areas on New Year's Day, the island country's Deputy Prime Minister Viliame Gavoka announced.

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    1. Luring “This is where you have a treat in your hand and you use it to guide your dog into specific positions,” explains DeWillems. “Luring can be pretty easy for most people and dogs to ...

  9. Cryptic relatedness - Wikipedia

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    This can act as a confounding factor in both case-control and genome-wide association studies, [1] [2] as well as in studies of genetic diversity. Along with population stratification , it is one of the most prominent confounding factors that can lead to inflated false positive rates in gene-association studies.