Overadjustment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    excessive adjustment countable, uncountable

    "These CD4 T cell-related variables were associated with ethnicity and were excluded from the initial model, to prevent overadjustment."

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"These CD4 T cell-related variables were associated with ethnicity and were excluded from the initial model, to prevent overadjustment."

Etymology

From over- + adjustment.

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