Sentences with phrase «produce unreliable results»

Not exact matches

In areas where the patient's choice has a profound effect on outcome, random comparisons eliminating choice will give unreliable estimates of true differences.14 Therefore, in the Netherlands, where choosing between home or hospital birth is an integral feature of the system, randomised controlled trials between home birth and hospital birth would not produce generalisable results even if it were possible to mount such trials.

To its credit, Duke University formally investigated the research staff employee, Erin Potts - Kant, suspected of producing fraudulent research results, and found that over a dozen research publications involving her with coauthors, including the Principal Investigator, Prof. William M. Foster (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, at the Department of Medicine) were retracted or «corrected»; some published data was admitted to be unreliable.

Senator Birmingham said the numbers produced wide variations between states and territories that made the results unreliable.

However, persistent cloud cover is a continuous issue in the tropics, and extreme flooding can also produce unreliable remotely sensed data that will result in tree cover loss «false positives» (alerts where no actual tree cover loss has occurred).

The passing of the Green Energy Act (GEA) in 2009 resulted in adding intermittent and unreliable renewable energy that is unresponsive to demand (wind power is produced out - of - phase with demand in Ontario).

The result, as the BBC says, «a graph remarkably similar to those produced by the world's three most important and established groups [NOAA, NASA, and the Met Office and Climatic Research Unit], work had been decried as unreliable and shoddy in climate skeptic circles.»

Incomplete records can produce highly unreliable results, which sometimes cause lawyers to add an even more unreliable «X factor» to their estimates of the financial health of the practice.