Sentence examples for spurious relationship from inspiring English sources

In this case, tax proxies are adjusted in some way in order not to produce a spurious relationship with debt policy.

Our finding of the positive relationship between public acceptance of evolution and GDP per capita may arguably be a spurious relationship for education and literacy.

This does not mean that the variable is not related to migrant protest, but that more tests have to be undertaken in order to exclude a spurious relationship.

For example, if an already employed woman is offered childcare by grandparents because they do not want leave children in formal childcare, OLS estimates will capture a positive but spurious relationship between grandparental childcare and mother's labor force participation.

In noisy data there is great risk of predicting a spurious relationship between any pair of genes.

However, a spurious relationship between mating success and sharing meat could arise if high-ranking males were both copulating and sharing meat more frequently than low-ranking ones.

(That is, including too many independent variables given a relatively small sample size, potentially picking up on spurious relationships).

Problems in decision making may be accrued from the presence of hidden confounding interactions, spurious relationships, lurking variables at work.

Recalling the caution of spurious relationships as expressed above, and the limitations of sample size in this study, this effect nevertheless deserves careful consideration.

The modelling outcomes highlighted the lack of reliability in cross-sectional data analysis, based on the indication of spurious relationships between water quality and land use.

This would be problematic insofar as it would reveal that our independent variables show more (general) dissimilarity across countries that is not directly related to our theory and hence could indicate spurious relationships.