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Confounding is a form of bias that concerns how a measure of association may change in value depending on whether variables other than the exposure variable are controlled in the analysis.
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Kleinbaum, D.G., Sullivan, K.M., Barker, N.D. (2013). Confounding. In: ActivEpi Companion Textbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5428-1_10
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