Sentences with phrase «of spurious»

Included among the strategies of an angry dissatisfied parent to discredit their service provider are postings on the Internet of a spurious and vexatious nature absolutely vilifying the service provider.

Response biases are only one of the sources of spurious or misleading correlations between parental behaviors and child outcomes discussed in my book (Harris, 1998); six others are listed in my article (Harris, 1995, pp. 477 - 479) and are also discussed in the book.

Jason Cugle, if all goes well, will soon be able to continue to operate his mail - order business without fear of a spurious patent lawsuit.

BEWARE OF SPURIOUS PHONE CALLS AND FICTITIOUS / FRADULENT OFFERS.

BEWARE OF SPURIOUS PHONE CALLS AND FICTITIOUS / FRAUDULENT OFFERS IRDAI clarifies to public that IRDAI or its officials do not involve in activities like sale of any kind of insurance or financial products nor invest premiums.

Beware of Spurious Calls and fictitious / fraudulent offers.

BEWARE OF SPURIOUS PHONE CALLS AND FICTITIOUS / FRAUDULENT OFFERS IRDAI clarifies to public that -

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.

Clearly, the women who he once hit on didn't like it (but didn't raise it at the time because they didn't want the publicity or didn't want to be on the receiving end of a spurious defamation lawsuit, so they stayed silent until they could be silent no more).

Ominously, a Number 10 spokesman has also said that the government was committed to addressing the «types of spurious claims that companies like PIL are pursuing» and that ministers were considering a «suite of measures» to prevent «bogus claims.»

The Court of Appeal has come down hard on a judge who allowed a small claim to be transferred to the multi-track on the basis of a spurious counterclaim.

According to Number 10, the prime minister was «deeply concerned at the large number of spurious claims being made against members of our armed forces».

So if there is no overall trend, there will be no divergence in trend as a result of spurious heat sink effect.

Ignoring the properties of the time series data used to test a theory (hypothesis) can easily suffer the «pitfall of spurious regression.»

The Application of Size - Robust Trend Statistics to Global - Warming Temperature Series Thomas B. Fomby and Timothy J. Vogelsang Journal of Climate 2002; 15: 117 - 123 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0442%282002%29015%3C0117%3ATAOSRT%3E2.0.CO%3B2... recent studies have pointed out that strong serial correlation (or a unit root) in global temperature data could, in theory, generate spurious evidence of a significant positive trend... A serial - correlation — robust trend test recently was proposed that controls for the possibility of spurious evidence due to strong serial correlation....

Philip Johnson has flatly asserted that ID is an effort to give a scientific basis to creationism, and William Dembski, author of the spurious «specified complexity» argument, has said ID is «to enable God to receive credit for creation.»

The first eigenvector of the covariance matrix for this simulation is the red curve in Figure 9 - 2, showing the precise form of the spurious trend that the principal component would introduce into the fitted model in this case.

However, «the data suggests that the divergence between well and poorly sited stations is gradual, not a result of spurious step change due to poor metadata,» they concluded.

A number of spurious criticisms regarding the Mann et al (1998) proxy - based temperature reconstruction have been made by two individuals McIntyre and McKitrick (McIntyre works in the mining industry, while McKitrick is an economist).

Blogosphere Can Improve Public Confidence in Science New Scientist says rather than retreat from debate about the science «in the name of spurious consensus» it needs to embrace it:

Whatever website you are reading that is telling you UHI is the cause of a spurious warming trend is either very outdated, very uniformed or very dishonest.

He didn't say «invalidates the entire dendrochronological record», he said «invalidates the previous 900 years of spurious nonsense» — which are the interpretations of the dendrochronological record as temperatures.

Anyway, there is so much documented evidence of spurious shifts and trends in hydrological variables in the reanalyses (and even in temperature and wind) that I would not place any more store in trends from them than I would in a Ouija board.

You know, the one which invalidates the previous 900 years of spurious nonsense.

treat it like all the rest of the proxies, just plug it into the hopper (I mean if your method has a danger of spurious matches, well... that's what it has... that's an issue of the methodology.

But that's an entirely different issue from the very simple one about Mann's correlation of sediments from Finnish bridge building with global climate fields — something that may qualify as a classic example of spurious correlation, up with Yule's original alcoholism and C of E marriages.

Without understanding and identifying the mechanism of the teleconnection, there is no way of knowing whether the statistical results are realistic and not yet one more case of spurious correlation.

This shabby analysis has been debunked by Richard Telford http://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/not-phraud-but-phoolishness/ His conclusion: «The changing geographic and seasonal patterns in data availability means that simply calculating the mean pH for each year will give all sorts of spurious trends in the analysis.

These show that RSS diverges from these and from UAH, showing more warming than the other datasets between 1990 and 2002 — a key period with two older MSU sensors both of which showed signs of spurious warming not yet addressed by RSS.

As noted on CA, I checked RE statistics for «reconstructions» using two of the most famous examples of spurious regression in econometrics: 1) Yule (1926) which shows a relationship between mortality and proportion of Church of England marriages; 2) Hendry (1980) which shows a relationship between cumulative U.K. rainfall and inflation).

So sick of sepo AWG deniers posting their minority of spurious sources that always ultimately link to the same dodgy organisations and their dodgy scientists.

Fred: «Yes, but you get lots of spurious correlations with time - series data, which is why econometricians test for «Granger causality».

@David Kane I always use «income» in preference to GDP, since the latter concept conveys an air of spurious precision (and of course, the D is silly in a global context).

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

The bottom line is we are all very much aware of spurious correlation and have been for 100 years or more.

[UPDATE] John Goetz pointed out that the likely source of the spurious trend is temperatures in Tingri (see Fig. 1, way back in the high mountains at the upper right at almost 6,000 metres elevation in the tundra) and GISS step 2.

This highlights the thinking of some that weather and climate can have some sort of spurious stasis condition.

But more relevant for the current discussion is more direct evidence of spurious correlation.

I wasted almost an entire day confirming that nothing has changed about her, since I make it my business to answer some of these spurious claims on DotEarth, a waste of time most likely.

In a significantly powerful review paper (Ghil et al 2011) the arguments as posed in a binary way, are not as simple as he thinks nor ameanable to archaic methodology that has been to justify a number of spurious arguments eg Lenton.

Huybers argued that this model of a spurious RE mechanism did not replicate a re-scaling procedure, now known to be in MBH98 from the source code release.

Because of a spurious complaint to the regulatory authority that she was «practising medicine whilst being unregistered» Dr Laurie voluntarily offered to AHPRA not to use the title «Dr» which retired or non-practising doctors are legally entitled to do in Australia, because she did not wish to mislead anyone about her current non registered status in her work with the Waubra Foundation.

It would be great if there were some way to update the proxies and test temperature reconstructions; that would really lay to rest (or not) all the accusations of spurious correlation etc..

In essence, Leri is able to illuminate emotive and spiritual content through the elimination solely of the spurious and superfluous, thereby reflecting Hans Hofmann's observation that one must «eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.»

And, speaking of spurious correlations, since Charles Norton brought up the Sharpe ratio, I may as well say that it is a bankrupt concept as commonly used by investment consultants.

Anyway, enough of the spurious blend of cars and politics, let's talk nuts and bolts.

He enabled the district to cream off the top students to send those students there under the type of spurious and illegal policies that Jonathan is reporting here.

The site warns of spurious — or outright fake — posts that are expected to be put out in an effor to dissuade voters.

The site warns of spurious — or outright...

By producing a multitude of spurious studies purportedly showing that MSG is safe as a food additive they can say with impunity, «The weight of the scientific evidence demonstrates that MSG is safe for human consumption»».