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Confounding variable Uncommon

Origin: Latin suffix -able

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Noun
1

An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.

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extraneous variable dependent variable independent variable statistical model confounder correlate
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Rhyming Words
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