What's the difference between inaccurate and mismeasurement?

Inaccurate


Definition:

  • (a.) Not accurate; not according to truth; inexact; incorrect; erroneous; as, in inaccurate man, narration, copy, judgment, calculation, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
  • (2) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (3) For both early and late P300 peaks, ERC patterns following feedback about inaccurate performance involved more frontal sites than did those following feedback about accurate performance.
  • (4) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
  • (5) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (6) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
  • (7) Disk position was assessed inaccurately in either plane in patients with severe degenerative joint disease.
  • (8) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
  • (9) Aside from the fact that it is intemperate and inaccurate, it is also libelous.
  • (10) Not only that, it prejudicially and inaccurately links me to a terrorist attack, which the vast majority of Muslims (including myself) believe to be absolutely abhorrent and against the teachings of Islamic principles.
  • (11) Inaccurate IFS diagnosis of depth of myometrial invasion can occur when tumor involves the uterine isthmus or cornua and when tumor invades areas of adenomyosis.
  • (12) It appears that the nature of the questions asked may be as much or more of a contributing factor to inaccurate self-reports as subject or setting factors, especially for individuals who report high levels of alcohol use, for whom special efforts may be necessary to gather valid self-report data.
  • (13) The 2.5-hr assay at 35 C proved to be an inaccurate method.
  • (14) Moreover, genetics textbooks consistently employ confused or misleading definitions of the concept of heritability that, together with the reporting of discredited data, perpetuate a fundamentally inaccurate understanding of the genetics of intelligence.
  • (15) The interpretation of responses to trains of impulses can be made inaccurate by alternate blocking.
  • (16) Although this process has been found to be inaccurate, nurses often express discomfort when clients hold perceptions of reality that run counter to their own views.
  • (17) The common practice of describing the histologic distribution of pulmonary lesions from their radiographic patterns is often inaccurate.
  • (18) Simple linear regressions on age and height are inaccurate, in particular for young adults and for the elderly.
  • (19) The nonlinear relationship between LDL and hearing loss together with the large intersubject variability in the data suggest that prediction of LDL from hearing threshold would often be highly inaccurate.
  • (20) Thus, the thermodilution technique of measuring cardiac output is inaccurate in patients with tricuspid regurgitation, yielding results that are consistently lower than the actual outputs.

Mismeasurement


Definition:

  • (n.) Wrong measurement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To demonstrate the way in which error masks effects, we studied the impact of extreme mismeasurement in analysis of strong or moderate underlying associations using computer-simulated, case-control studies (300 cases, 300 controls).
  • (2) Latent class analysis provides a useful framework for the analysis of epidemiological data which may have been mismeasured.
  • (3) A booklet just published by the National Union of Teachers, The Mismeasurement of Learning , gives 16 short essays of evidence on how tests are damaging children and primary education (see reclaimingschools.org ).
  • (4) Profound mismeasurement, which, in these studies, probably typifies measures of dietary exposures in general and of fat in particular may, in part, explain this lack of agreement.
  • (5) Important risk relationships can be concealed, despite careful design and analysis if there is substantial mismeasurement of exposure.
  • (6) We consider three commonly-used statistical tests for assessing the association between an explanatory variable and a measured, binary, or survival-time, response variable, and investigate the loss in efficiency from mismodelling or mismeasuring the explanatory variable.
  • (7) Analysis by Number Cruncher Politics published last week concludes that the relative proportions of “Labour” and “Conservative” Ukip defectors had been mismeasured – more Ukip voters had come from Labour than the pollsters thought, and fewer from the Tories.
  • (8) The first is to use external information about the extent of mismeasurement to adjust estimates of the effects of exposure.
  • (9) Corrected for mismeasurement, the corresponding odds ratios were 2.90 (95% CI 1.42-5.93), 2.57 (95% CI 1.24-5.32), and 0.36 (95% CI 0.17-0.71), respectively.
  • (10) The major disadvantage of the adjustment strategy is its sensitivity to incorrect specification of mismeasurement structure.
  • (11) With maximum likelihood theory, the repeat data were used to produce odds ratio estimates of relative risk corrected for mismeasurement.
  • (12) When mismeasurement of the exposure variable is anticipated, epidemiologic cohort studies may be augmented to include a validation study, where a small sample of data relating the imperfect exposure measurement method to the better method is collected.

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