selection bias

collocation in English

meaningsofselectionandbias

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selection
noun
uk
/sɪˈlek.ʃən/
us
/səˈlek.ʃən/
the act of choosing someone ...
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bias
noun
uk
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
us
/ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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(Definition ofselectionandbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofselection bias

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This type of study suffers from a number of biases includingselectionbiasand information bias.
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Nonetheless, dropping those countries out of the dataset would causeselectionbias.
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In other words, does sampleselectionbiasplague our probit analysis of strategic behaviour?
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However, the representativeness of the generated sample remains questionable due to potential sources ofselectionbias, which must be considered.
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Therefore, the clear trend toward more efficient decoding of the stress position in the older participant group may reflect in part a sampleselectionbias.
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Moreover, a certainselectionbiascould inadvertently be present as availability of both patients and equipment were used as selection criteria.
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It is possible, however, that there may be a countervailingselectionbias.
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Moreover, losing 64 cases (26% of our sample) increases the risk of creating aselectionbias.
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Results are also subject to sampleselectionbiasas the type of people who participated might have very different views from those who did not.
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Thus,selectionbiasis one of the greatest threats to validity in observational studies.
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In doing so, we may have traded one type ofselectionbiasrelated to panel composition for another.
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Concealed randomized allocation of interventions preventsselectionbiasand controls for confounders, both known and unknown.
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This study does not have recent enough data to test whether they would have been even higher in the absence ofselectionbias.
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Consequently, infectious disease studies can be greatly affected byselectionbiasrelated to the hosts harboring the pathogens under study.
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First, there is theselectionbiasin the study population.
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Their inclusion probably reflects aselectionbias, as a higher number exposed in these premises increases the chances of the outbreak being identified.
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Second, the reduction in the conveyance rate might have been an indirect result from aselectionbiasfrom the emergency dispatchers.
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The purpose was otherwise, thus no deliberateselectionbiasis entailed.
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Our sample was, therefore, more representative of patients placed on an order and less subject to referral orselectionbias.
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