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compliant (adjective)

/kəmˈplaɪənt/

used to describe someone or something that obeys particular rules or laws:

compliant with sth The company expects to be reclassified as soon as its factories are fully compliant with the Federal Clean Air Act.

noun

A confounder (or 'confounding factor') is something, other than the thing being studied, that could be causing the results seen in a study.

confounders have the potential to change the results of research because they can influence the outcomes that the researchers are measuring.