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Definition of CONCURSUS. : the influx of divine causation upon secondary causes; especially: the doctrine that before the fall man was preserved from sin by the aid of God.ADVERTISEMENT. Medieval Latin, from Latin, concourse â more at concourse.rigin of CONCURSUS. Medieval Latin, from Latin, concourse â more at concourse. This word doesn't usually appear in our free dictionary, but the definition from our premium Unabridged Dictionary is offered here on a limited basis.
A confounder is a variable that is correlated (directly or inversely) to the independent variable and correlated to the dependent variable. A lurking variable is a covariate that is not taken in account for by the researchers of the quantitative study. Confounding is a causal concept, and as such, cannot be described in terms of correlations or associations (see causal definition).