"statistical artefact" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is typically used to refer to a kind of error or bias in a set of statistical data. For example, "The researcher concluded that the results of the study were likely a statistical artefact, rather than having any true meaning."
You seize on a meaningless statistical artefact - that the prime minister and treasurer represent the "second richest" and "third richest" electorates (actually something quite different: the electorates with the second and third highest median weekly household incomes).
Clipping the dragon's wings Jobs for life Burmese maze Reprints Related items Staying at the top: Mao and the art of managementDec 19th 2007But this does not mean China's economic miracle has been just a statistical artefact.
The rebound turned out to be a statistical artefact, resulting from an increase in the number of children living with step-parents or adoptive parents (up from 4.5m to 5.2m) and from the bureau's definition of a "nuclear family".
With this approach, we robustly identified network defects associated with the ASDs by minimizing statistical artefact derived from any a priori excessive CNV burden in cases over controls, as well as other unknown biases that may be inherent in the human interactome data49,50,51 that we mined.
It shows that this result is not only a matter of statistical artefact resulting from the use of a normal distribution in the MXL [39].
It is likely that the activity of this fragment is a statistical artefact of co-occurrence with other mutagenic features and not as a result of being a mutagenic feature itself.
These are not statistical artefacts or the result of scientists cherry-picking their data.
These are not statistical artefacts or the result of scientists cherry-picking data.
These statistical artefacts create a downward trend in the poverty figures where no real trend exists.
It ensures that proposed interactions and gene associations are not statistical artefacts inherent to the specific gene network architecture.
Unlike physical objects, these are statistical artefacts that only emerge from the data you analyse.An early step towards understanding these artefacts was taken by a Belgian scientist, Adolphe Quetelet, who in 1831 created l'homme moyen, or the average man.
