Sentence examples for statistical artifacts from inspiring English sources

Despite being the most widely used measure for the performance of models generating presence absence predictions, several studies have argued that the kappa statistic introduces statistical artifacts to estimates of predictive accuracy [61].

A second limitation is that many algorithms do not provide reliable motif statistics to enable the biologist to discern functional motifs from statistical artifacts.

The idea is to focus on those variables that have some logical meaning rather than being statistical artifacts.

One can also implicate statistical artifacts.

But other work suggested these islands were statistical artifacts, leading one of the creators of the island concept to renounce the idea.

Future studies should use better measures of physical activity and prospective designs, adjust for statistical artifacts, and consider advances in the conceptualization of personality.

"It might just be a statistical artifact," Professor Baldus said.

But a raft of evidence now suggests that the migraine finding, though intriguing, was less fact than statistical artifact.

Over the past few years, scientists have opened the black box to investigate the brain itself, not a statistical artifact.

"The idea that this effect is a statistical artifact or not real is nonsense," said David Leon, an editor at the International Journal of Epidemiology.

In separate posts on their blogs, Andrew Gelman, a statistician at Columbia University, and Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, argued that the jump in the mortality rate was partly a statistical artifact of the aging of the U.S. population.