Sentences with phrase «find spurious»

If you look hard enough you can always find spurious correlations.

In a bad quarter, they could find spurious reasons to release those reserves and — voila!

Even if someone did tests using Granger - causality, I'd still be suspicious of the result, whichever way it would point, because of the high probability of finding spurious correlations.

But it isn't the comparison between legal and scientific processes that, ultimately, determines which is more inclined towards finding spurious attributions of causation....

Who knows how many «relationships» an author investigated before finding a» significant p - score» Can we really assume that these scholars will reveal just how many bogus relationships they tried to extract from a data set before finding some spurious correlation?

However, all of these limitations (lack of blinding, different response rates, and use of self - report) were likely to have had the effect of biasing the trial in favor of finding spurious associations.

Not exact matches

Assuming that all the tests involved have a high statistical power, the lone positive finding is almost certainly the spurious one.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Arguments that America was founded as a secular society are spurious and false.

I wish I could read the paper and dive deeper and know for sure, but when you take an overall condition with no association with procedure X, and then break that condition down into smaller bits and find a bit that does have an association with procedure X, I want to take a closer look at the numbers to make sure it's real and not spurious.

Finally, we conducted a number of analyses in this study, particularly with regard to the occurrence of breastfeeding problems, and the possibility of spurious positive findings attributable to multiple comparisons must be acknowledged.

«Moreover, in their quest to rig and announce spurious results, all sensitive materials including result sheet were nowhere to be found.

It is now clear that the majority — perhaps the vast majority — of neuroscience findings are as spurious as brain waves in a dead fish (see «Hidden depths: Brain science is drowning in uncertainty «-RRB-.

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.

Then they used the original team's model to analyse this fake data, and were still able to see a spurious 3.24 - day signal — even though there were no planets to be found.

«Our findings suggest that previous associations between low vitamin D and atopic disease could be due to spurious associations with other factors,» said Dr. Despoina Manousaki, the lead author and a PhD student at the Lady Davis Institute.

Bill Hare, who leads a group of top climate scientists and economists at Berlin - based Climate Analytics who helped produce the UNEP gap report, said Geden's accusations «could not be more wrong» and lumped the researcher in with climate skeptics and other naysayers «who systematically downplay the risks of climate change and argue against action to reduce emissions on spurious and ill - founded grounds.»

However, there are other phenomena that vary with the seasons that could have created a spurious result, and follow - up experiments all but slayed the DAMA detections — researchers found either no dark matter signals at all or mere hints that many found unconvincing.

This may be caused by spurious alignments between similarly structured recent transposons found in reference and outgroup species, effectively separating the annotation gain events into smaller pieces.

If the result is only observed for this extreme group the findings are more likely to be spurious.»

Finally, the RSS group found differences between MSU and AMSU sensor readings caused by spurious calibration drift in either NOAA - 14 or NOAA - 15 satellites.

But many of these findings are probably spurious, arising because the data are very poor and hard to get and the methodological difficulties are formidable.

As the miles slipped by, the only flies that landed in the ointment were the spurious traffic info being picked up by the satnav and the lack of height adjustment for the driver's seatbelt, which bugged Mrs Ev until we found a makeshift solution.

Although the statistical significance of the caudate cluster was modest in each dog individually (p < 0.01 in Callie, and p < 0.001 in McKenzie), the observation of the same location in the same condition in both dogs, and in the hypothesized region, strongly suggests that these were not spurious findings.

«The apparent contradiction between verification statistics is thus fully resolved: the cross-validation R2 of approx 0.0 demonstrates that the MBH98 model is statistically insignificant; the new simulations, implementing the variance rescaling called for by Huybers and newly - revealed in the MBH98 code, confirm our earlier finding that the seemingly high MBH98 RE statistic is spurious.»

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.

Dr. Leif Svalgaard of Stanford vukcevic Your «findings» are spurious and the «physics» is wrong.

vukcevic December 11, 2012 at 2:07 pm According to Svalgaard of Stanford whatever I find in the data appear to be spurious Some of what you call «data» is not.

Data is made up Data is ok but not related Data is related but not on the time scale Data is no good at Tromso but is ok at Honolulu Data is all fine but it correlation is spurious, because some woman found one

Hi Greg According to Svalgaard of Stanford whatever I find in the data appear to be spurious.

In addition, BEST released an absurd preliminary finding that urbanization since 1950 had caused a spurious COOLING signal to the record, glossing over this finding by saying there was no impact:

Any correlation which may be found is spurious, not caused by the proxy actually responding to temperature.

A more convincing example of spurious regression in «peer reviewed» literature will be hard to find.»

Meanwhile, other modelers found a variety of other ways to damp down spurious magnifications and other instabilities.

«Sceptical blogger Anthony Watts criticised elements of the team's findings, releasing details of his own analysis which claims to show that US temperature trends in recent decades show «spurious doubling»».

DeMott and Randall (2004) found more mixed results, although their data may have been contaminated by spurious adjustments (Durre et al., 2002).

5 - The correlations that Mann08 thought they found between 1850 - 1995 temperature and proxy signals were actually spurious correlations to contaminating non-climate signals.

The modern trend, in the reserve direction, was found to have passed verification as compared to modern temps, even though this is obviously completely spurious.

The Bureau of Meteorology's climate data experts carefully analyse records to find and address spurious artefacts in the data, thus developing a consistent — or homogeneous — record of daily temperatures over the last 100 years.

Mears and Wentz 2005 found that UAH didn't account for drifts in the time of measurement each day, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Wentz and Schabel 1998 found that UAH didn't account for orbital decay of the satellites, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Hurrell and Trenberth 1997 found that UAH merged different satellite records incorrectly, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Fu et al. 2004 found that stratospheric cooling (which is also a result of greenhouse gas forcing) had contaminated the UAH analysis, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

All they have to do is find a scary short term trend and extrapolate ad absurdum... or point at any spurious / abnormal * seeming * phenomenom and chances are they'll get their funding again next year.

In 2009 Gavin Schmidt published a paper in the International Journal of Climatology claiming our results, as well as those of de Laat and Maurellis who independently found the same things we did, were spurious.

The company also found itself at the center of a whistleblower lawsuit last year stemming from a pharmaceutical fraud case in 2007 where it was accused and found to be selling «untested, spurious, and ineffective medication.»

To find otherwise would be to leave any decision by the tribunal, based on the most spurious evidence, beyond the scope of the courts» review.»

Ms Morris, however, has stressed that there is always the risk of spurious claims finding their way back into a tribunal and employers should be wary.

«They investigated the last time there was a spurious complaint and found Vote Leave followed the rules and donations were within the law.

At the same time, DRD2 and DRD4 have been found to be related these different phenotypes [11, 41 — 43], thus raising the possibility that the gene × gene interaction is spurious, with the confounding factors being drug dependence.