confounding effect

基本解释

The results by CART regressive tree analysis on confounding factors indicated that the benzol blends exposure was a main effect on infants' body length.
孕妇苯系物暴露是影响新生儿出生身长的主要因素，而孕妇在家被动吸烟和倒班可使其子代出生身长比对照组短；
There was a strong indication that adjuvant chemotherapy prolongs survival, and a confounding negative effect of chemoradiotherapy on the benefit of chemotherapy alone was apparent.
与辅助性化疗的益处相比，化放疗相配合的辅助疗法产生的是负面效应。
If that confounding variable can be taken care of, though, and the effect persists, the next obvious step is to determine what mechanism within the mother’s body causes the discrepancy.
假设在排除这些变量因素的条件下（如果这些变量真的存在），上述结果仍然生效，那么下一步就需要研究到底是母亲身体里的什么机制决定了子女的性别差异。

From the use of surrogate endpoints (based on biological plausibility and the results of preclinical studies) to the distinction between correlation and causation, confounding (whether the effect size is too large to be explained away by confounding), and the hypothesis-generating nature of the inferential process.
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If that confounding variable can be taken care of, though, and the effect persists, the next obvious step is to determine what mechanism within the mother's body causes the discrepancy.
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