The phrase "a false indication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that misleads or provides incorrect information about a situation or condition.
Example: "The test results were a false indication of the patient's health, leading to unnecessary treatments."
Alternatives: "a misleading sign" or "an incorrect signal".
It should be noted that it may be hard to detect enhanced plasticity in selected phenotypes because of the 'Fry conjecture': selected genotypes are better at handling stress, thus the "internal" stress indicators may not be sufficient to induce expression changes, thus creating a false indication of canalization.
Experiments showed that once a false indication occurs, it may have drastic effects on system safety.
Surface noise can affect the image and give a false indication of where the true surface lies.
It would eventually give a false indication of indomethacin effect and, in the long term, such high dosages may even endanger the patient's life.
He goes on to discuss the handwritten text as a false indication of an authentic voice.
Those tests will provide a false indication, but they will become a part of my daughter's academic record.
From the height vs time plot, there is a false positive indication of increase height right after landing.
Further, as this approach uses sub-sampling, it can miss potentially localized events, again causing a false negative indication.
Additionally, TcBBM expression could also give a false positive indication for embryo initiation, as was the case for the ICS1 genotype.
The [H]methyl acceptance assay is indirect and only semiquantitative; a known limitation of this assay is that damaged DNA templates (DNA adducts, strand breaks and abasic sites) can accept methyl groups in the methylase reaction and may therefore give a false positive indication of hypomethylation.
This paper presents a model-based simulation approach to systematically generate potential false indication and unintended consequences.
