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Example sentences for: lag

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Because of the lag time between selecting a eligible control and interviewing them, an intercurrent illness could have caused them to lower or increase their tap water consumption in the four weeks prior to their interview, thereby inflating or deflating the association the between the pattern of tap water consumption and cryptosporidiosis.
Since these are acute mortalities, it is assumed that there is no lag between reduced exposure and reduced risk of mortality.
In developing the Base Estimate of the benefits of premature mortality reductions, we have discounted over the lag period between exposure and premature mortality.
The time lag indicates that only descendants of the migrants who were born and who grew up in the host country will develop a similar risk as the host population, and that possible environmental and behavioral causes act early in life or in utero [ 20].
Models with no lag and two-week lags were also fit.