Sentence examples for an spurious from inspiring English sources

Yet we believe that LVH assessment by conventional echocardiography in an individual child with ESRD may too easily result in either underreporting of LVH or in an spurious diagnosis of LVH.

For example, although MR can be used to test the causal relationship between smoking and BMI, BMI could also influence smoking as people may smoke as a weight control method, 52 in which case an spurious association between the gene and BMI would be seen due to a 'back door path'.

But if the contrast is a spurious one, an unwarranted trope, then perhaps something can be said about cordgrass.

There is a danger of having a spurious regression (the database is a time series).

Hence, whenever a trait shows a spurious linkage, many correlated traits will likely map to the same locus, creating a spurious expression (e QTL hotspot.

Frequently, during microsatellite genotyping in diploid organisms, one or both of an individual's two copies of a locus fail to amplify with PCR, yielding a spurious homozygote or a spurious occurrence of missing data.

A software error may produce a spurious result that appears significant, or may mask a significant result.

A spurious correlation in a third attribute, for example, can reduce the uncertainty between the other two.

Adjusting for such a factor can result in a spurious association.

The consequence is a spurious correlation (or at least an inflated one) between parasite abundance and host fitness.

Second, incomplete taxon sampling can result in a spurious rate slowdown due to an overrepresentation of deeper nodes [ 49].