Sentence examples similar to a spurious number from inspiring English sources
The black population in Cuba is far larger than the spurious numbers of the most recent censuses.
A long-term study that showed a spurious correlation between the numbers of stork nests and human births is widely used in the teaching of basic statistics as an example to highlight that correlation does not necessarily indicate causation.
The hypothesis of a spurious association due to the number of comparisons cannot be ruled out; however, there is supportive mechanistic evidence.
The elevated spatial odds in the northern part of the country are a spurious result because of small numbers of case-patients and controls and not something that we put forth as a valid result.
For example, the algorithm might find a spurious solution with compensatory copy-number state changes across subclones, which is very unlikely on biological grounds but might serve to opportunistically maximize the total log likelihood.
However, we cannot rule out the possibility that this is a spurious pattern caused by the small number of substitutions observed in our dataset.
Adjusted models also showed a strong association between benzene exposure and chromosome 21 nullisomy among Y-bearing sperm, but this may be a spurious finding due to the low number of men with this sperm anomaly (< 20% per exposure group).
A deviation from this trend was seen in the lifetime risk of ovarian cancer illustrated in Table 3, which was lowest in the 'pathogenic mutation' group; however, this may be a spurious finding due to the limited number of relatives with ovarian cancer.
Some have reported spurious copy number changes in FFPE samples and generally FFPE samples fail more often than fresh frozen.
This procedure allowed us to choose a significance threshold with a controlled expected number of spurious detections.
First, digraph generation is error prone, time consuming and second, a large number of spurious solutions are generated due to the qualitative nature of the analysis.
