Sentences with phrase «avoid spurious»

To avoid spurious associations, these items were omitted.

Consequently, most in the field simply refrain from using the word «Syndrome» in an effort to avoid spurious debate about what is really a non-issue.

Dynam., 3, 173 — 188, 2012 To avoid spurious correlations the statistical tests show that the [CO2] serie must be differentiated once before being compared to T (t) hence the only possible relation is between d [CO2] / dt and T (t)

So they started from a period when they had enough data to avoid spurious oscillations.

The cultural worldview scales are continuous, and should be used as continuous variables when testing study hypotheses, both to maximize statistical power and to avoid spurious findings of differences that can occur when one arbitrarily divides a larger data set into smaller parts in relation to a continuous variable.

One way to find out is to wait patiently for a particle to smack into a detector buried deep underground to avoid spurious signals from ordinary particles raining down from space.

This feature can actually help in avoiding the spurious news.

Not exact matches

It is certainly not self - evident that the additional value that would accrue to God by God's knowing that the creatures» fiduciary attitudes were authentic, rather than spurious, is sufficient to justify all that evils that would have been avoided had God been willing to forgo this additional value.

(Just as we did with classroom observations, to avoid generating a spurious correlation between student survey responses and achievement scores for the same group of students, we estimated the correlation across different classrooms of students taught by the same teacher.)

Svec totally avoided answering Hansen's assertions: that big coal has been trying to muddy the debate on climate change with spurious, specious arguments to delay action.

The Loehle work is one of the few which does not heavily weight certain series, and therefore avoids the data mining / spurious correlation problem.

To address the other spurious criticisms of MM, a 1902 - 1971 calibration interval was employed in this analysis to avoid any infilled missing proxy data between 1972 and 1980, and the «St Anne River «series challenged by MM (due to 4 infilled missing values from AD 1400 - 1403) was eliminated.

That I addressed, in order to avoid the otherwise inevitable spurious correlation with [CO2], by first differencing (NOT by 1st derivative).

The protection of children should always be society's first priority but individuals should avoid making accusations based on spurious evidence.

Had the company dismissed Cavenagh for gross misconduct on spurious grounds rather than through exercising a contractual right, they could have relied upon the repudiatory breach to avoid the payment.