Sentence examples for may reflect error from inspiring English sources

Estimates of rate variation derived from empirical data in plethodontid salamanders were less than those derived from comparable datasets simulated under an enforced molecular clock, suggesting that the empirically-estimated rate variation may reflect error rather than true differences in the underlying biological substitution process.

When the underlying measure is imperfect, marginal improvements from 96%to99%9% may reflect error in measurement and denominator management more than nearly perfectly reliable performance.

This has raised questions about the link between operculum activity and grammatical computations, and suggests that it may reflect error detection and reanalysis instead [Caplan, 2007], consistent with the association found between the FOP activity and the decision-making aspects of auditory perception [Binder et al., 2004].

Poor credit may reflect errors on credit reports, as it did in Emmett Pinkston's case, or factors such as medical debt, a messy divorce, predatory lending, or simply unemployment.

This class may in fact not be chimeric at all but may reflect errors in protein coding prediction methods.

This could be an effect of amelioration or may reflect errors in the prediction so the results should be interpreted with caution.

These distributions incorporate the best-known estimates for origination dates of these taxa, but are wide enough to allow for shifts in dates that may reflect errors due to interpretation or incompleteness of the fossil record.

The unmappable reads may reflect errors specific to certain sequencing kits (Mortazavi, personal communication, 2009) as well as artefacts from the processing of RNA for massive parallel sequencing (Blow, 2009).

As denoted in our earlier study this may reflect disease-dependent changes in presystemic bioavailability or may simply reflect errors in parameter estimation using a population-based pharmacokinetic approach.

I'm not trying to downplay today's disappointing number, but we are measuring change on a base of 133 million jobs and telling the difference between a change of 96K versus 141K is a small change which may reflect measurement error or a slowdown.

The number of controls that completed the yearly cortisol assessment post-baseline was small; therefore, the latter finding should be interpreted with caution and may reflect random error.