The phrase "avoid that association" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when advising someone to steer clear of a particular connection or relationship between ideas, concepts, or entities.
Example: "In your analysis, it's important to avoid that association between the two variables to maintain objectivity."
Alternatives: "steer clear of that connection" or "dissociate from that link."
We used two different approaches to avoid the possibility that associations between height and adiposity might emerge as an artifact of height measurement error.
The origins are therefore speculative, but it is known for certain that George Bullough changed the spelling to Rhum to avoid the association with the alcoholic drink rum.
In this study, to avoid the association between arterial stiffness and macroangiopathy, patients with macroangiopathy were excluded.
Therefore, SNP filtering was considered to be important for a reliable and accurate set of genotype calls that avoid false association signals and false negative signals, allowing rapid identification of disease susceptibility genetic factors.
Given that more and more mapping studies are being designed with SNP, this suggests that close SNPs should be combined into groups of two or three to build pseudo-multiallelic markers that avoid spurious associations.
To avoid spurious associations that could arise from population structure, we included principal components (PCs) derived from the genotypic data matrix (n × m) as covariates (i.e. Q matrix).
Interrupted-time series analysis has been recommended to avoid identifying associations that are not real and only due to secular trends, but it can also be helpful to identify effective interventions when the trend is in the opposite direction.
The RNA concentration in all experiments was equal to or lower than 0.4 mM to avoid intermolecular association events that could interfere with the PRE analysis.
One of the advantages of the family-based nature of the study is avoiding spurious association that may occur as a consequence of the population admixture that prevails in these villages, and generally in African villages.
