The phrase "applied to the spurious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theories, concepts, or methods that are relevant to or associated with something that is false or misleading.
Example: "The findings of the study were applied to the spurious claims made by the competitor."
Alternatives: "related to the false" or "pertaining to the deceptive".
He thinks that the concept of theory is largely spurious when applied to the humanities because he takes the unusually narrow and scientistic view that all types of theories require rigorous experimental support, which the humanities do not seek to offer.
Harmonic constraints of 0.5 kcal/mol−Å2 were applied to the Cα atoms of the TM domain of the proteins to avoid spurious distortions during the initial thermalization and pressurization of the system.
The present formulation has been applied to the thermal stress problems and it has been addressed that, by suitable assumption of the enhanced assumed strains, the spurious oscillation of the thermal stresses can be successfully overcome.
Conditional Granger causality was then applied to the spike train data from the five neurons highlighted in red in Figure 8 to identify and remove any spurious connections suggested by the PGC analysis.
Because no current ROH identification software takes care of adjacent heterozygous SNPs, careful visual inspection of ROH segments should be applied to exclude spurious ROH called by the software.
Total variation diminishing / bounded (TVD/TVB) limiters and bound-preserving limiters are applied to control spurious oscillations.
A mode filter (i.e., a filter that replaces a current state with mode of its neighboring states) is applied to avoid spurious changes between states.
A LOD score of 5.0 with a maximum recombination of 45% was used to assign markers to linkage groups with the exception for LG6 and LG11, where a LOD score of 8.0 and 9.0, respectively, was applied to break spurious linkage according to Muchero et al. (2009).
A minimum connection distance criterion of 4 cm between grid points was applied to avoid spurious coherence detection due to field spread effects [Schoffelen and Gross, 2009].
Further criteria were applied to filter out spurious and non-significant TF-gene correlations.
