Sentence examples for placebo test from inspiring English sources

The women who were least trusting anyway, as judged by the placebo test, were affected hardly at all by testosterone.

We also conduct a placebo test to support this conclusion.

That is, these results serve as a placebo test.

This analysis can be considered as a placebo test for our main estimates.

The placebo test results are discussed in more detail in the following section.

This regression provides a placebo test for the results regarding refugee experiences.

In a small 12-week randomized, double-blinded trial, researchers gave 29 normal weight postmenopausal women either 75 milligrams a day of resveratrol or a placebo, testing their metabolic function at the start and end of the study.

The placebo tests in columns (2) and (4) are insignificantly different from zero supporting such negative effects.

Appendix Table 11 provides another reason to be cautious about the Fifth Circuit results: the post-2009 and post-2011 placebo tests produce some positive, statistically significant estimates.

We then gauge the potential for selection effects overall to affect our analysis by considering the robustness of our results to an alternative measure of involuntary job loss which is also unexpected and by conducting placebo tests.

Placebo tests can be a useful way to assess whether treatment effects are real or spurious, but in NSW, we argued that DLR's test was invalid because federal minimum wage changes across the border would also imply minimum wage changes in the state in question, so that the cross-border minimum wage assigned to placebo observations is contaminated with actual minimum wage variation.