The phrase "appears spurious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that something seems to be false, misleading, or not genuine.
Example: "The evidence presented in the report appears spurious, raising doubts about its validity."
Alternatives: "seems questionable" or "appears dubious."
The pH association did not appear spurious due to differences in assignment of cases and controls as the distribution was equally distributed for psychiatric cases and controls between U, K, UK super haplogroup and the remaining haplogroups.
However, some results appear spurious, such as the consistent grouping of the non-ditrysian Hepialus in Tineoidea.
In fact, when multivariate analysis was performed on our cases, the association of female sex to response appeared spurious, being related to the lower mean weight of women.
We also observed several hundred events with BAF values of 'NA' or 0.50 (no BAF shift), which appeared spurious, so we implemented a 0.51 minimum threshold cut-off.
Here, the plateau artifacts from spectral and ACF-based methods appear as spurious peaks in the sarcomere length rate evolution.
The enrichment for muscle contraction appears to be spurious and reflects a potential pitfall of enrichment analysis using GO annotation.
Some assemblers are known to combine such contigs into one scaffold where the heterozygous region appears as a spurious segmental duplication [ 25].
Reanalysing one study that attempts to use them in this way I find that the reported regression appears to be spurious and driven largely by data selection and data transcription errors.
Given that the POM means were not significantly different between the groups at baseline (independent t-test, p=0.061), and there is a non significant Time effect, the significant group effect appears to be spurious either due to the small sample size and/or the appropriateness of using mood as an outcome measure (See Table 2).
