English Explanatory Dictionary

confounding variable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

confounding variable confounding variables

Synonyms

confounding factor
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