Sentence examples for attributable to selection from inspiring English sources

Several studies had weaknesses attributable to selection biases, uncontrolled confounders, and lack of blinding of outcome assessors.

However, the estimation of a mixed proportional hazard model suggests that this is attributable to selection on unobservables rather than true duration dependence.

In other words, while part of this negative duration dependence is attributable to selection on observables, as shown by the increase in the estimated α parameter going from specification (3) to (1), the exit rate is still declining with the duration of the overeducation spell after controlling for an extensive set of observed characteristics.

Much of the variation in brain and testes sizes among primate taxa, therefore, is attributable to selection for body size.

In four out of eight populations that possess both Cys and Ser alleles, there is a significant departure from HWE (Table 1), a result that might be attributable to selection.

In addition, the maps discriminate between HLA-associated polymorphisms directly attributable to selection pressure by the allele (meaning that they survive correction for HIV covariation), from those that may be better explained indirectly (meaning that their occurrence may be better explained by the presence of an HLA-associated covarying residue, rather than the allele itself).

However, if polygyny results from a shortage of males because of lower survival of males after hatching, rather than differences in male mating success, this underestimation of variance in reproductive success would be attributable to natural selection and not sexual selection.

Additionally, the difference in total critical care length of stay may be partly attributable to a selection bias; for example, if clinicians select a patient for non-clinical transfer who they consider is likely to require several more days of critical care.

Thus, if adaptation is mutation limited, rates of adaptation are expected to be higher in species with larger N e, and given the higher efficacy of selection against mildly deleterious mutations, so is the proportion of divergence attributable to positive selection relative to mildly deleterious or neutral mutations.

Therefore, the favourable survival rates in our trial may be attributable to patient selection.

The difference in direction of point estimates between the studies appears largely attributable to the selection of studies and data rather than, for instance, choice of treatment effect measure (OR rather than RR) or any statistical adjustments applied by Regnier et al. [ 39].