Sentence examples for fortuitous association from inspiring English sources

The challenge is to evaluate whether these factors are indeed correlated to the phenomenon or if the statistical significance results from fortuitous association or type 1 statistical error (probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is true).

Thus, the presence of RP phenotype and this mutation could be explained because the second mutation would be a severe allele or would be due to fortuitous association.

Interestingly, 34 out of the 35 matches were coincident with the location of LiSIDER2 elements, indicating that this is not a fortuitous association.

This suggests that the success of higher nematines was caused, not by the evolution of superior biological characteristics as suggested by Ross [ 34], but by a fortuitous association with willows at a time of a cyclically cooling global climate.

In this term, the covariance is over the entire population, and may result either from a direct causal influence of fitness on offspring phenotype, or any fortuitous association in which the phenotype that confers the highest value of Ω ^ happens to also be associated with individuals who's offspring differ most (or least) from their parents.

The interspersion of CGTC elements with other classes of transposase genes was also monitored, but only a few fortuitous associations have been detected.

As no further reports suggesting similar conclusions have been published, it is not possible to establish whether the association was fortuitous or an increased risk of infections exists when the probiotic is given to pregnant women.

Analysis of 17 cases of coexistent sarcoidosis and malignant lymphoproliferative disease, supplemented with 29 similar cases reported in the literature indicates that this association is not fortuitous.

However, we can wonder if this association is intentional or fortuitous.

This association may have been fortuitous, but it is important to clarify if this trait is included in future salmon breeding programmes.

Therefore, MI should produce more conservative estimates β ^ M I when imputation uncertainty regarding marker-trait associations is high, in order to avoid declaring as significant associations that are due to "fortuitous" imputations.