Sentence examples for cause false positives from inspiring English sources

As for the decision to stop recommending clinical breast exams, the society said that there was no evidence that the exams save lives, but that there was evidence that they could cause false positives — meaning they could mistakenly suggest problems where none existed and lead to more tests.

Now, they could fix the sushi example I gave earlier but that may cause false positives with other aspects of the system.

Results showed six case reports documenting venlafaxine (Effexor®, Wyeth) and dextromethorphan (DM) as known agents that cause false positives for PCP on rapid urine drug tests [11 17].

It must be taken in consideration that active inflammation (i.e. active tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, rheumatoid nodules) may cause false positives on PET-CT scans because of their high glucose metabolism [10].

The 285 genotypes in the diverse panel exhibited a distinct population structure (Additional file 2: Figure S1) which can cause false positives if not corrected (Zhu et al. 2008).

Open-mouthed facial expressions is one of main reasons for their lower localization performance, and they observed that the wrinkles between lower lip corner and chin also cause false positives for the mouth corners in 3D.

If left alone, these would cause false positive conflicts to appear in the FITS consolidated output.

"Poppy seeds are not permitted across the prison estate as they can cause false positive results for opiates," a prison service spokeswoman tells us.

In addition, wax has a tendency to accumulate in a CWD mastoid cavity, and this can cause false positive signals on DWI (Fig. 13a).

Deviated from the HWE can cause false positive of observed association in the data.

Although there are clear differences in clinical characteristics across these populations, our normalization steps should have ensured that systematic differences will not cause false positive associations.