Sekirov Dictionary

confounding

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 3

noun2

The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
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The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.
- Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s). — 2013

adjective1

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Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing.
- We have to with a Heart searching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confusion ; when God examins such, his Questions will be Nonplussing and Confounding,[…] — 1716

forms

confoundings · more confounding · most confounding

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