Sentence examples for spurious relation from inspiring English sources

It is not excluded that the confidence related to nutrition knowledge may disguise a spurious relation with label use.

These simple correlations may just pick up a spurious relation, especially because the level of the minimum wage is not an exogenous variable.

A limitation of this study is that we performed multiple statistical comparisons on a relatively small population, which has a risk of accepting a spurious relation.

This framework can be broadly construed to reflect two dimensions: directionality (direction of causality; A→S, S→A, or a spurious relation) and temporality (distinguishing between proximal and distal effects of both behaviors).

This secular trend, and other patterns, may induce a spurious relation between economic decline and CD if the patterns in CD were not statistically controlled.

43 So even if reverse causation seems improbable in our study because of mid-life baseline measurements and a long follow-up period, and even with adjustment for several relevant mid-life variables, it could always be argued that some other unknown factor produced a spurious relation between marital status and impairment later in life.

Doing so avoids finding many spurious relations, reliably resolves ambiguities between relations, and reduces inconsistencies.

Using a large number of features is problematic because this approach increases the chance of learning spurious relations (overfitting).

Usually, confounders, such as age and gender, are included as regressors in order to control for spurious relations through these covariates.

Since one of our aims is to prevent any spurious relations via the confounders, we use a loss function that does not apply shrinkage to these.

However, we need to keep in mind i) the possibility of spurious relations, and ii) the problem of the choice of the explanatory variables, which is not an easy task.