Sentence examples for be caused by misclassification from inspiring English sources

Second, measurement error may be caused by misclassification of food outlets into the BMI-healthy, BMI-unhealthy, and BMI-intermediate categories.

Moreover, among the misclassification cases, the 71.4% incorrect prediction (35 among 49 wrong predictions) of the three models built with DEGs was caused by misclassification between Acute and Chronic or between Uninfected and Non-progressive.

The design of the free living part of the study refrains us from concluding whether the discrepancies were caused by misclassification of the devices or by inaccuracy of the diary as comparator.

The error concerned approximately 8% of the cohort (women who answered the first version of the food frequency questionnaire, before 2002) and was caused by misclassification of the amount of the women's reported folic acid supplementation (no supplement use instead of missing information on supplement use).

The lack of association in men in this study sample may be caused by a misclassification of subjects due to inaccurate reporting of family history, which would have attenuated the association.

Any such information bias is expected to be caused by non-differential misclassification, because registration of AKI-RRT is unlikely to be dependent on mortality status and vice versa.

23 As suggested by Dalberg et al the different results in the Swedish and the Danish cohorts may be caused by different degrees of misclassification of the outcome variables between the registries or differences in the use of adjuvant radiotherapy or systemic treatments after breast cancer.

Information bias (misclassification) may be caused by paucity of recorded clinical details or incomplete documentation of medication use.

The observed effect modification by age could be caused by differences by age in the extent of exposure misclassification or residual confounding rather than biologic differences in susceptibility to traffic.

Poorer correlation in patients < 5 years of age may have been caused by increased misclassification of the reported antibiotic use measure, because children taking antibiotics often miss doses (or do not receive full doses), and non-antimicrobial drugs may get reported as antibiotics.

(It was caused by something).