| 词汇 | confounding |
| 释义 | confounding present participle ofconfound confound verb[ T ] uk /kənˈfaʊnd/ us /kənˈfaʊnd/ to confuse and very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation: 使惊疑，使困惑 An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.赫尔市的一位老人在被正式宣布死亡后居然活了过来，令医生们大惑不解。 The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.这位歌手随后又推出了一张不同凡响的专辑，令评论家们大感意外。 Surprising and shocking against all expectationsphrase amaze amazing amazingly astonish dumbfounding dumbfoundingly dynamite earth-shaking earth-shattering one for the booksidiom pull pull something out of the bag/hatidiom raise (a few) eyebrowsidiom reality check turn up (somewhere) turn-up for the book(s)idiom unbelievable walk walk in on someone You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Puzzle and confuse Examples of confoundingconfounding In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Random assignment would ensure that all unmeasured confounding factors were equally distributed between comparison groups. However, these studies have not been of sufficient size to account adequately for the role of confounding factors. Failure to consider confounding variables such as age. Samples from animals 5 months old were not used, to avoid confounding with maternal antibodies. A final potential confounding factor in the present study was overall severity of illness in manic versus depressed patients. To control for confounding a multivariate analysis was performed by the use of logistic regression. Logistic regression was then applied to obtain maximumlikelihood estimates of the effect of exposures on the outcome of interest whilst controlling for confounding. Another complication involves confounding the experimental manipulation with other influences on trial outcomes. Another confounding factor on the generalizability of trials is the drug's eventual applicability in different ethnic populations. Another confounding factor is the lack of rigour in assaying the endpoint of maturation - the production of a fertilizable egg. The women in such studies are at varying stages of disease and treatment, confounding cross-study comparisons of quality of life. In order to minimize the potential of drug use confounding the results, comparisons were made between patients with and without medication. In order to overcome this limitation, all comparisons were carried out controlling for possible confounding variables. We chose to use only the two specific items to reduce the likelihood of confounding by other conditions. Logistic regression was applied to control for potential confounding. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。