The phrase "as if data" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing hypothetical scenarios involving data, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "She analyzed the results as if data from the experiment had been collected accurately."
Alternatives: "as though the data" or "as if the information".
"Several petitioners told us they have been stopped at train platforms". The bloggers, activists, and lawyers are also being systematically silenced or imprisoned, as if data can give the government the same information without any of the fiddly problems of freedom.
To make wise decisions we need a lot more than just facts, and yet, we are behaving as if data is the central key to a good life.
Such a program can internally handle all queried data as if the data would be stored in local data structures and memory.
Intention-To-Treat analysis was performed on the primary outcome with the IPR imputed as zero if data were not available.
The aggregate SOHO-5 score was considered as missing if data on two or more items were missing; otherwise the score was the sum of the items with non-missing data.
We imputed missing data for PM10 and ozone as follows: If data from one station were missing on a given day, the other station's value or mean of the two other stations for that day was used.
The strength of evidence was judged as "insufficient" if data were lacking because the relation between nutritional factor and disease has not yet or only rarely been investigated in the present studies.
Files were considered as valid if data were present for every 15-min period in a 24-h cycle (even when scattered over multiple days) and with calibration error lower than 0.02 g (after calibration error correction).
The HMM analysed the semi-synthetic data as if the data were being received prospectively by date of report.
Downward continuation highlights the high frequency content of a gridded magnetic data set, just as if the data had been acquired at a lower survey height.
Central tendencies and data variability were reported as means/standard deviations if data were distributed normally; and medians/interquartile ranges when not.
