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confounder

noun

Etymology

From confound + -er.

  1. derived from cōnfundō — “to mingle, mix together”
  2. derived from confondre
  3. derived from cunfundre
  4. inherited from confounden — “destroy, ruin, perplex”
  5. suffixed as confounder — “confound + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who confounds.

  2. A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be…

    A factor, in data analysis, that causes the effects of two distinct processes to be indistinguishable; a confounding variable.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for confounder. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA