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Controls that are not good confounders are sometimes called bad controls. In general, confounding can be controlled by adjustment if and only if there is a set of observed covariates that satisfies the Back-Door condition. Moreover, if Z is such a set, then the adjustment formula of Eq. (3) is valid.
Without having one, a possible confounder might remain unnoticed. Another associated problem is that if a variable which is not a real confounder is controlled for, it may in fact make other variables (possibly not taken into account) become confounders while they were not confounders before.
Choose appropriate confounders (variables hypothesized to be associated with both treatment and outcome) Obtain an estimation for the propensity score: predicted probability p or the log odds, log[p/(1 − p)]. 2. Match each participant to one or more nonparticipants on propensity score, using one of these methods: Nearest neighbor matching
Mathematically, ANCOVA decomposes the variance in the DV into variance explained by the CV(s), variance explained by the categorical IV, and residual variance. Intuitively, ANCOVA can be thought of as 'adjusting' the DV by the group means of the CV(s). [1] The ANCOVA model assumes a linear relationship between the response (DV) and covariate (CV):
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The procedure proposed by Dunn [2] can be used to adjust confidence intervals. If one establishes m {\displaystyle m} confidence intervals, and wishes to have an overall confidence level of 1 − α {\displaystyle 1-\alpha } , each individual confidence interval can be adjusted to the level of 1 − α m {\displaystyle 1-{\frac {\alpha }{m}}} .
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