Sentence examples for because of a spurious from inspiring English sources

Since late last year, suspicions have been running unusually high because of a spurious map that appeared on Internet sites here and was quickly accepted as real by newspapers and radio talk show hosts.

They argue that this evidence is biased because of "a spurious negative relationship between the minimum wage and employment for low wage workers…" (Dube 2011, p. 763), owing to minimum wages being adopted when there are negative shocks to the employment of affected workers unrelated to minimum wage effects.

William K. Black, a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a former senior federal regulator during the savings-and-loan crisis, argues that the because of spurious accounting rules adopted last year, banks aren't properly recognizing their losses, and are in fact largely insolvent.

It abandoned people to a volatile market in the name of a spurious entrepreneurialism".

Of course, there is always the possibility of a spurious correlation.

When the difference in the number of study participants that harbored a resistant H. pylori infection and those who did not for a given risk factor was <2, we chose to exclude the risk factor from further analysis because of the possibility of arriving at a spurious association caused by small cell-size variations.

The elevated spatial odds in the northern part of the country are a spurious result because of small numbers of case-patients and controls and not something that we put forth as a valid result.

Assuming a different (most likely higher) mortality for institutionalised patients compared to non-institutionalised ones would have led, because of the model structure, to a spurious indirect impact of treatment on life expectancy (through the impact of treatment on institutionalisation).

There was also a New Testament Apocrypha, but it did not achieve canonical status because of numerous spurious details.

Hammond thought that performers like Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway (because of their "spurious showmanship") and Duke Ellington (because of his detachment from the troubles of what Hammond called "his race and original class") were inauthentic.

Because of the spurious regression problems, non-stationary variables should not be directly used in the regression model.