Sentence examples for distort the effect from inspiring English sources

Detection of real intervention effects requires adequate control of any bias that may distort the effect so as to ensure that there is no false assumption of effectiveness and lack of possible harm.

This may distort the effect measurement of sport participation on life prospects, self-regulatory skills and SOC.

Variables with more than 20% missing or inappropriate values were excluded from the analyses since these could unduly distort the effect of other variables in the model.

Omission from the study sample of those who do not seek care when ill (both MHO members and non-members) would further distort the effect on utilization and out-of-pocket payments attributed to MHO membership.

Further complicating the issue is the fact that time and the cyclic nature of all events distort the effects of policies, so that results can be randomised by change, or unnoticed against background social movements.

Controlling for a collider to block the indirect pathway to obtain the controlled direct effect in this scenario has the unintended consequence of distorting the effect of interest between temperature and mortality (Cole and Hernan 2002; Schisterman et al. 2009).

"The effects are distorted; the effects are untrue" said Gideon Meir, a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In dueling tax claims, the candidates distorted the effects of each other's tax plans.

We also attempted to control for both problem size (the total number of items) and for numerical distance (the numerical difference between the two sets) in order to avoid that either of these parameters would distort the ratio effect, as ratio effect is the composite of numerical distance and size.

But they distort the intended effect, almost erecting a play in the place of what the author consciously called an anti-play, and turning Ionesco into something closer to Joe Orton, not such a painful transformation, to be sure, but a transformation nonetheless.

They may undertake initiatives that improve their care for older people and this may distort the intervention effect.