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A confounding variable is the bane of every clinician’s and researcher’s existence. A confounding variable is anything that can affect (or effect) an outcome measure, principally performance on neuropsychological testing, and is not of primary relevance in clinical practice or experimentation. However, their presence interferes with the ability to descry particular phenomenon, and either clouds or deceives neuropsychologists’ judgments by distorting the relationships among variables.
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Maroof, D.A. (2012). Covariates and Covariance Analyses. In: Statistical Methods in Neuropsychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3417-7_6
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