overadjustment

(ˌəʊvərəˈdʒʌstmənt)

an adjustment that is too great

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Overadjustment bias and unnecessary adjustment in epidemiologic studies.

Statistical Methodology in Studies of Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: A Review of Existing Approaches and New Alternatives

However, mental attitude may alter the time course of disease processes and influence health behaviors directly, so the possibility of overadjustment exists and we may be adjusting for the effect of intermediate factors in the causal pathway.

Positive Mental Attitude Associated with Lower 35-Year Mortality: The Leisure World Cohort Study

There are two types of risk: the infra-adjustment that indicates that the model does not have enough information to predict samples and the overadjustment that indicates that the model has a lot of information that is not useful.

Detection of Cyanuric Acid and Melamine in Infant Formula Powders by Mid-FTIR Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis

First, there is overadjustment when the data have not been prepared well, and there are data with erroneous or poorly conditioned input information.

An Approach to Integrating Tactical Decision-Making in Industrial Maintenance Balance Scorecards Using Principal Components Analysis and Machine Learning

As a comparison, the Whitehall study adjusted for 3 confounding factors [10] so overadjustment cannot be ruled out in the current study.

EFFORT-REWARD IMBALANCE, OVERCOMMITMENT AND THEIR ASSOCIATIONS WITH ALL-CAUSE AND MENTAL DISORDER LONG-TERM SICK LEAVE--A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF THE SWEDISH WORKING POPULATION

To avoid overadjustment, the only variables added to the model were those that were significant predictors of a secondary event at an a-level of 0.1 or that changed the parameter estimates for the main variables (galectin-3) by more than 10%.

Prognostic Utility of Galectin-3 for Recurrent Cardiovascular Events During Long-term Follow-up in Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease: Results of the KAROLA Study

Therefore, using this line item to offset related party holdings may generate an overadjustment.

A structural view of U.S. bank holding companies

You can never prove cause and effect with observational studies, and it would be a mistake to make meaningful conclusions from this study due to its observational nature and possible overadjustment of the data.

Are dietary supplements safe? An analysis of the Iowa Women's Health Study

Finally, the statistical adjustment procedures applied to HIV surveillance data to account for reporting delay are subject to a degree of uncertainty (1), which could result in overadjustment or underadjustment of the data.

Estimated lifetime risk for diagnosis of HIV infection among Hispanics/Latinos - - 37 states and Puerto Rico, 2007