Sentence examples for was probably spurious from inspiring English sources

This was probably spurious because respondents did not usually view them as primary consulting facilities, or because they did not think that they represented an appropriate response to the question [31% of women recalled taking allopathic medicine for their problems].

Scientists say that even though some of these findings are probably spurious — if you dig around in data, you will eventually find correlations just by chance — other effects are very likely real, triggered not by the alignment of the planets but by exposures during prenatal and early postnatal lives.

'No-AIDS' life expectancy similarly flattens off and also declines beyond 2000 2005, but both declines are probably spurious.

Also, it was reported that CloseUp assigned high statistical significance to cluster pairs that were probably spurious in a maize dataset and that the detection of homologous regions could have been obscured by random background matches [ 27].

The apparent residual effect of ploughing date on severity of take-all on the roots of third wheats in Experiment 9 is probably spurious because it evidently had no effect on the severity of take-all in the preceding crop.

Consumption of rodents was associated with a borderline significant protective effect, which was probably a spurious association.

For Bayesian trees, a moderate relationship exists (y = −0.0634x+0.0437, r2 = 0.396, P<0.05), but this is probably a spurious result stemming from two artifacts –this method's sensitivity even when few outgroups are included, and the lack in this subset of trees with a high proportion of outgroups.

Statistical analyses highlighted that the maternally inherited allele at the IGF2 locus had a significant effect but simulation studies showed that this is probably a spurious effect due to the segregation of the second QTL.

However, detailed analysis suggested that this latter association was also probably spurious.

This is probably due to spurious correlations among the updated ensemble members within each set.

The false biological signals observed by [14] and the dramatic drop off in the inaccuracy of measured turning angles as a function of step length [15] are probably caused by spurious 180° turning angles (Figure 5).