Sentence examples for be affected by reverse from inspiring English sources

Discrimination is not included in the above preferred specification as we are worried that such subjective perceptions may be affected by reverse causality from general life satisfaction.

Causal inference in cross-sectional design can be affected by reverse causality.

Metabolic changes related to diabetes could be present years before diagnosis, and results of prospective studies could be affected by reverse causation if the time between exposure measurement and diagnosis is short.

In the present study, however, only housework weekly hours could be measured; and the relationship between these and SRH is likely to be affected by reverse causality (poor health as a cause of less time spent in housework).

This is because conditional on population structure, genetic variants are more likely to be independent of later environment and lifestyle factors [ 19]; they are also unlikely to be affected by reverse causation.

A potential contributing factor to this might be that our study was less likely to be affected by reverse causality that is, that a low BMI is caused by (rather than the cause of) ill health than studies on older adults.

To guard against the possibility of middle-age BMI findings being affected by reverse causality whereby potential bias would arise from possible weight loss caused by occult disease impacting on BMI we carried out sensitivity analyses excluding 161 deaths occurring within 3 years following questionnaire return [ 18].

Prescriptions in the year before the index date were ignored because including these could lead to results being affected by reverse causality - prescribing in cases in this period might be the result of consultations relating to early cancer symptoms before the recorded diagnosis and this could attenuate any protective effect or exaggerate any harmful effect.

A search asymmetry occurs when search times are affected by reversing the identities of target and distractors.

He also urges clients to develop a list of relatives who might be affected by a reverse mortgage.

We include the lagged value of wage since the current wage could be affected by a reverse causality problem: more absences reduce (to some extent) the wage paid by the employer.