Does infant birthweight percentile identify mothers at risk of severe morbidity? A Canadian population-based cohort study
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Confronting the confounders: the meaning, detection, and treatment of confounders in research
When one variable is studied to try to explain another, the relationship between them may be biased by a third variable. The bias, known as 'confounding,' is common and must be minimized in research. This description is deceptively simple, though. Identifying confounding is complex but can be reduced to a stepped procedure. By way of examples, this article describes confounding and how to recognize it.