(adv.) Not correctly; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(2) Only 1.1 percent of birth weights would have been incorrectly classified into low or normal birth weight categories based on maternal reporting.
(3) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
(4) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(5) Depending on the statement, between 26 and 54% of the interpretations were incorrect.
(6) A detailed morphologic analysis demonstrated that two of these six cases were incorrectly diagnosed as being pure mucinous carcinomas--they were actually of the mixed type.
(7) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(8) Twenty-three percent employed no birth control and 27 percent used diaphragms, the majority either inconsistently or incorrectly.
(9) Children in the first group were provided training by their parents that was intended to focus the child's attention on consonants in syllables or words and to teach discrimination between correctly and incorrectly articulated consonants.
(10) With respect to malignant tumours, in 1961-70 clinical diagnoses were correct in 37% of cases and incorrect for 26%; in 1978-87, 47% were correct and 15% incorrect.
(11) The presence and absence of the firing were correlated with the correct and incorrect performance of the task, respectively.
(12) The products obtained upon galactanase digestion of the soybean arabianin-galactan demonstrate that the earlier proposal concerning the structure of this polysaccharide must be incorrect.
(13) A total of $4975 of patient charges was associated with incorrectly obtained SDCs or inappropriate actions taken on SDC results.
(14) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
(15) It is proposed that the intermediates have an incorrectly formed beta sheet whose maturation to the structure found in the native conformation is one of the slow steps in folding.
(16) Bias is any systematic error in the design, conduct, analysis, or interpretation of a study that tends to produce an incorrect assessment of the nature of the association between an exposure or risk factor and the occurrence of disease.
(17) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
(18) The obvious questions, (1) which tree is the correct one, or (2) both trees can be incorrect, and (3) how can we explain such an evolutionary pattern, are discussed on the basis of our limited knowledge of factors that influence the clocklike behavior of biological macromolecules.
(19) Exceptions to HLA association in GH are rare and can be explained by: (1) incorrect HLA serotyping, (2) chromosomal recombination, or (3) rare homozygous-homozygous mating.
(20) Misfolded models were constructed by introducing incorrect side chains onto polypeptide backbones: side chains of the alpha-helical hemerythrin were modeled on the beta-sheeted backbone of immunoglobulin VL domain, whereas those of the VL domain were similarly modeled on the hemerythrin backbone.
Mismeasure
Definition:
(v. t.) To measure or estimate incorrectly.
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.