Sentence examples for be a statistical artifact from inspiring English sources

"It might just be a statistical artifact," Professor Baldus said.

Some of the acceleration might be a statistical artifact of the unusually mild winter, so far, in the eastern United States, which has probably led to fewer layoffs than usual in construction and other seasonally affected businesses.

We concur that a bilingual advantage may be generated under very specific conditions, but the very large number of suggested conditions and requirements shows that any effect is the exception rather than the norm and may be a statistical artifact.

Upper respiratory infection (URI) was more frequent in the high dose groups (p = 0.014), but this is likely to be a statistical artifact as URI would not be expected to be related to vaccination.

Therefore, this apparent interaction may be a statistical artifact.

This does not necessarily reflect a causal association because it may be a statistical artifact.

"The idea that this effect is a statistical artifact or not real is nonsense," said David Leon, an editor at the International Journal of Epidemiology.

This even let some authors argue that it was a statistical artifact.

In Experiment 4 we replicated these effects using a within-subject design, which ruled out the possibility that the effects were a statistical artifact caused by aggregation of data.

We suspect this is a statistical artifact related to small sample size, nonetheless, it is a perseverant treatment.

At least among men aged 65+ the seemingly large mortality advantage of foreigners compared to Germans is a statistical artifact.