Understanding Health Research, a tool for making sense of health studies: Confounders

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Short Description:

A confounder (or 'confounding factor') is something, other than the thing being studied, that could be causing the results seen in a study.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-3 関連性と因果関係は同じではない

Details

A confounder (or ‘confounding factor’) is something, other than the thing being studied, that could be causing the results seen in a study.

It can be very difficult to account for every possible confounder when doing research with people, but researchers must try to account for anything that could influence their results when planning their research and analysing their data. confounders have the potential to change the results of research because they can influence the outcomes that the researchers are measuring.

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