Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

confounding variable

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.81 in modern English

Syllables: con-found-ing -vari-able
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.

Inflected Forms

confounding variables (plural)

Synonyms

confounding factor

Questions

What does confounding variable mean?: An extraneous variable in a statistical model that correlates (positively or negatively) with both the dependent variable and the independent variable.

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