Sentence examples for of being spurious from inspiring English sources
Making the conservative assumption that replicate peaks separated by more than 65 bp have an increased likelihood of being spurious, we filtered the peaks from the two samples using this cutoff, resulting in 1608 high-confidence peaks (Additional file 3).
For these markers with low MAF, because of the very large size differences between the two genotypic classes, the tests based on ANOVA had a greater risk of being biased due to variance heterogeneities and of associations being spurious.
And a spokesperson for Pil commented: "There is no evidential basis of there being "spurious claims" and the Prime Minister's comments are wholly unfounded".
President Bush recently appealed to China to stop the prosecutions of Chinese-Americans on what appear to many in the United States to be spurious charges of espionage.
Neither way is optimal, so that signals of association are bound to be spurious.
Dorian de Wind Austin, Tex., Jan . 20 , 2008 To the Editor: Re "Hillary, Barack, Experience" (column, Jan. 20): Nicholas D. Kristof mentions that Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim of having 35 years of experience is "spurious".
Thus, we suggest that the current database annotation of COG1833 is spurious and should be corrected, although the fusion of two nuclease domains in Methanococcales does suggest some functional cooperation.
Research into fear of crime has constantly indicated that the link between crime fear and recorded levels of crime is spurious.
In this case the appearance to two different types of movement is spurious.
Consequently, the level of responsiveness is spurious, as evidenced by the fall in SRM on all subscales when calculated using the interval data (where the technique is valid).
The observation of the expanded extracellular space (ECF) was challenged by Fronius suggesting that the apparent expansion of ECF was spurious and resulted from the relative changes in the intracellular compartment, which disproportionately contracts in severe wasting[ 34].
