Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the association between male sex and increased risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism as one that is spurious.
If this suspicion is correct and there is a correlation between aggregate education and the normative climate in the community, we will observe a positive effect of aggregate education in Model 1 that is spurious.
University evaluation policies seem to be designed following a logic that is spurious for the organizational structure of private universities in the region.
"While there are many good gap year providers, we are increasingly concerned about the number of badly planned and supported schemes that are spurious - ultimately benefiting no one apart from the travel companies that organise them.
Rather, he said in an interview, he longs for a more sophisticated appreciation of the difference between generalizations based on information that helps society make rules and laws and those generalizations that are spurious or harmful.
The English actress Sheila Gish became a particularly aggrieved enemy in 1983, when Maria, acting with an authority that was spurious, tried to stop her from starring in a production of "Streetcar" at the Greenwich Theatre, in London.
We introduce a frequentist (non-Bayesian) method for model-based link prediction from link data in which (a) there may be unobserved links, and (b) an observed link is reliable, i.e., there are no observed links that are spurious.
In addition, a minimum absolute count can be specified to filter out categories that are spurious.
As may be expected, the percentage of genes in the hypothetical missed genes set that are spurious is higher than the named missed genes set, due to the lack of a functional assignment in the homologous genes used to add genes to the hypothetical set.
5. Some predecessor relationships may be listed that are spurious.
