Sentence examples for spurious resulting from inspiring English sources

It is possible, however, that part of the observed association between breast cancer mortality and the proportion of people aged over 64 years living in any given area may be somewhat spurious, resulting from the comparison of SMRs across regions with different age structures.

For example, in an initial series of studies by Riskind et al.[ 18], the findings which are taken to support the harm-looming model are also consistent with the idea that the relationship between loomingness perceptions and fear is spurious, resulting from high correlations between threat cognitions (comprising the vulnerability variables) and both spider fear and perceptions of loomingness.

One fund industry economist publicly said Professor Zitzewitz had "to torture his data" to produce "spurious" results.

She also said his "negative controls" were clear, which she agreed suggested that there were no spurious results.

Even the public/private school comparisons are largely spurious: results coming out of schools enrolling similar students don't vary much between the school sectors.

But when you combine data-peeking, liberal thresholds, study recombination, flexible hypotheses, and selective measures, you have a perfect recipe for spurious results".

Large epidemiological studies of this kind are prone to throwing up spurious results if the true factor causing health benefits is linked to whether women take folic acid or not.

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The junction between the two mirrors gives rise to spurious results.

When this condition is not met, data analyses yield spurious results leading to futile conclusions.

When this problem is not appreciated spurious results may be accepted as correct.