The phrase "avoid observations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from making comments or notes about a particular situation or subject.
Example: "In this meeting, we should focus on the main agenda and avoid observations that could derail the discussion."
Alternatives: "refrain from comments" or "steer clear of remarks".
A force of 200 infantrymen and 25 dismounted cavalry troopers (the latter dressed in civilian clothing) departed Indianapolis on a special train on the night of March 11, loading west of the city to avoid observation.
"In fact, they are more intent on trying to mask their personal information from hackers, advertisers, friends and family members than they are trying to avoid observation by the government".
To avoid observation effect, the on-call residents were blinded to the whole study.
To avoid observation bias due to differential misclassification, an independent investigator who was unaware of the items included in the algorithm and of the participant classification validated clinical diagnoses.
First, it is a retrospective study, avoiding observation bias, but with selection bias due to non-inclusion of patients with missing data.
We then went back into the hallway, and the next new persons entering a room were followed for the next observation, thus avoiding repeat observations of an individual health-care worker on any single observation day.
"I worry about going back to observations of low quality and low power, and I want to be careful that we avoid misleading observations".
To avoid considering observations with only a small amount of respondents to the surveys, only counties with more than 300 people answering the survey in 2014 are considered, resulting in a total of 53 counties.
To avoid intercorrelated observations, we restricted our analyses to first cohort pregnancy enrolment (independent of any prior children).
We limited our comparison to SNPs that represented transversion mutations to avoid erroneous observations caused by the C to T and G to A substitutions associated with ancient DNA damage [ 30].
