Sentence examples for a false statistic from inspiring English sources

Kirk's tweet cited a false statistic about migrant rapes in Denmark.

Many groups insist on repeating this false statistic, but none of them have cited a genuine source.

I (and many others) asked the mayor's office when they planned to rescind the clearly false statistic.

Proofiness Author Charles Seife calls this type of false statistic "proofiness".

In an August field poll conducted by the California news website the Press Enterprise, 57percentt of California voters agreed with the false statistic that Obamacare would cut senior citizen's Medicare benefits.

This paper concerns the accuracy of summary statistics for the collection of normal variates, such as their empirical cdf or a false discovery rate statistic.

Thus we are accepting the fact that of the 170 probe-sets, 17 may be associated with a false positive test statistic [19].

It wasn't until Friday that the newspaper declared the statistic a "false statement".

Valid: not likely to be a false positive (has some statistic of significance associated with it).

Each method produces a regularized t-statistic from which a false discover rate (FDR) can be calculated to identify the most likely DE genes.

SAM performs a moderated t-test on two user-selected groups of microarray datasets, and returns a set of discriminant genes ranked in descending order by d, the t-statistic, and calculates a false discovery rate (FDR) based on random permutations of the data labels (see Methods).