Meanings of spurious association in anglès

In addition, it includes an explicit test for the presence of spurious association.

Failure to properly account for population structure can lead to spurious association or reduced power.

One of the major challenges of association mapping is avoiding spurious association due to population stratification.

But this enchantment is produced by its spurious association with the personal charm of Jesus, and exists only for untrained minds.

The case-parents design has been widely used to detect genetic associations as it can prevent spurious association that could occur in population-based designs.

Thus, differential underreporting may be a cause of spurious associations in case-control studies.

A substantial drawback to such samples is the fact that population heterogeneity can induce spurious associations between genes and disease.

As population structure can result in spurious associations, it has constrained the use of association studies in human and plant genetics.

However, when the primary and secondary traits are dependent, naïve analyses of secondary phenotypes may induce spurious associations in non-randomly ascertained samples.