Sentence examples for spurious effect from inspiring English sources

They convinced themselves this was the causal story even though it's so obvious in retrospect that it's a spurious effect".

We propose here a simple methodology to correct this spurious effect without eliminating weak but true correlations.

The latest transition is expected to be a spurious effect, due to a lack of data in recent years (the last time window starts in 2010 and therefore can contain data only for 5 years).

Abbring and van den Berg (2003) show under which assumptions one can identify the true causal effect of the treatment from the spurious effect induced by the aforementioned selection effects.

Observational studies can be upgraded to moderate or high quality if such studies yield large effects and there is no obvious bias explaining those effects; all plausible confounding factors would reduce a demonstrated effect or suggest a spurious effect when results show no effect and/or if there is evidence of a dose-response gradient.

Perhaps Rapoport's altitudinal rule describes a spurious effect, or if true, helps to explain peaks in species richness at mid-elevations rather than decreasing richness with increasing elevation.

This technique combines results across many different labs that allow researchers to sort between tiny but consistent effects that are hard to see in individual studies and spurious effects that occurred by accident.

In this way, spurious effects caused by the interpolation of the MVS data into a more regular grid were avoided.

In [11], A. W. Doerry et al. investigated spurious effects of analog-to-digital conversion nonlinearities on radar range-Doppler maps.

This feature is very important to avoid spurious effects, such as the addition of artificial flexibility in the computational cell.

Adaptation of present mixing schemes may overcome these spurious effects of horizontally averaging the surface buoyancy fluxes.