For advocates of Modern Portfolio Theory, this is confounding at worst and problematic at best.
With the current state of the market, net-asset value can be a confounding calculation.
The chancellor can point to a career built on breaking rules and confounding expectations.
It may be a confounding variable in studies of air pollution or other causes of disease.
One confounding factor is that the late Cretaceous was also a period of great volcanic activity.
This result held true even when confounding factors like income levels were accounted for.
These results remained consistent after adjusting for confounding factors and controlling for other potential sources of bias.
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That's OK, especially for traditionalists who never wanted the convoluted and often confounding calculation in the first place.
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Photographers in Africa continue to call upon their rich and diverse cultural heritage, while deftly confounding western expectations.
This was designed to eliminate confounding factors such as the 'comforting' effect of drinking a cup of tea.
In other industries, though, recession should be viewed more as a confounding factor that magnifies existing business risk.
Dr Wilson and Dr Storm restricted their study to white, Protestant teenagers, in order to eliminate confounding variables.
While it can be confounding for investors trying to place their bet, competition raises the bar and spurs innovation.
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They suggest an infuriating insight into thinking itself: an insight that is just as profound as it is confounding.
The confounding data come from Commerce Department numbers showing modest (0.6%) growth last month unless auto sales are included.
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Second, in an ecologic analysis, one cannot control for confounding factors as one can in an analytic epidemiologic study.
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Confounding those who thought that scandal had ended his political career, he returned to his party's front bench in 1975.
And then poof, there was Mr. Murray slogging through a confounding second-round upset on a cool evening full of squandered chances.
In other words, this savory, confounding drink might make just as much sense at brunch as it did at 1 a.m.
But if there is one confounding problem that has plagued this team, it is the Knicks' consistently slow starts each night.
Hiddink's men will face either Italy or Spain in the last four after confounding the form book to put out the Dutch.
The confounding aspect to his change, though, appears to be his diligence.
But for any new arrival hoping to make more sense of this complex and confounding land, there are worse places to start.
Confounding our predictions, Samsung sold 10 million Notes in 2012, making it one of the most successful smartphone launches in history.
Would you have guessed that the number of people hitting the donut hole declined dramatically between 2007 and 2009, confounding the experts?
This insight is fueling the rise of a field called epigenetics, which is rapidly confounding any simple separation between genes and the environment.
Confounding and shifting regulations including a 1930 directive by President Herbert Hoover that immigrants not become "a public charge" impeded efforts to rescue Jews and others.
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The confounding factor is when contestants are forced to sing songs out of their comfort zone, something we have yet to see this year.
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Bearman exploded off the resultant five-metre scrum before confounding the defence with his delightful pass that gifted flanker James Harris a simple stroll home.
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