Sentence examples for may be unobserved from inspiring English sources

We introduce a frequentist (non-Bayesian) method for model-based link prediction from link data in which (a) there may be unobserved links, and (b) an observed link is reliable, i.e., there are no observed links that are spurious.

In such a data set, some links may be unobserved, and some observed links might be spurious.

For example, there may be unobserved traits (such as value of leisure) that affect both BMI and hours of work.

Our findings suggest there may be unobserved confounders associated with adverse selection in the HMO sector, which had a large effect on our mortality estimates among HMO enrollees.

This may be, for instance, because, although we are controlling for age or employment status, there may be unobserved variables correlated with these, which may bias results if natives and immigrants are systematically different along these lines.

Although there may be unobserved factors (e.g., marital relations) that affect both children and marriage stability, overall, in China, having children is a very important protective factor in terms of stabilizing marriages.

The paths are not visible in cross-section, because they are heavily blocked with wood flour; they may also be unobserved during wood processing.

The parameter λ measures entrepreneurial skill that will be unobserved in general.

More importantly, as k increases, some joint genotypes likely will be unobserved, leading to cells in the contingency table having counts of zero.

Once the child was cared for in the general nursing care unit, it may have been unobserved by the health care team and thus not documented.

This calculus does not require that the probability distribution satisfy the MC (nor Faithfulness), and so it may be applied to variable sets even when there are unobserved common causes.