biased sample

collocation in English

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biased
adjective
uk
/ˈbaɪ.əst/us
/ˈbaɪ.əst/
showing an unreasonable like or dislike for a person based on ...
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sample
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɑːm.pəl/us
/ˈsæm.pəl/
a small amount of something that shows you what the rest is or should ...
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(Definition ofbiasedandsamplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The likelihood of having abiasedsamplecan thus be reduced and the validity of results can be increased.
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This finding suggests that the ones that did give summary statistics may have been abiasedsample.
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Therefore, the results will be presented on all eight schools and the seven schools excluding the school with thebiasedsampleselection.
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If this is the case, they constitute abiasedsampleof dreams.
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It could be argued that recruitment of only women with breast cancer and via a single source has led to abiasedsample.
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Seventh, the fact that females were significantly more likely to refuse may have resulted in abiasedsamplewith young males who are more difficult to treat.
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It cannot be a fair example, but abiasedsample, biased in favour of pessimism.
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The people who reply to the customer satisfaction surveys are abiasedsample.
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The expectation of sizebiasedsampleis equal to its contraharmonic mean.
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Suppose that abiasedsampleof 100 patients included 20 men and 80 women.
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The model is then built on thisbiasedsample.
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There is less likely to be a response though because of the nature of lurkers and those that do respond may be abiasedsample.
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There have been attempts to categorize, but there are no definitive answers yet due to the under-diagnosis and small/biasedsamplesizes.
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For example, a survey of high school students to measure teenage use of illegal drugs will be abiasedsamplebecause it does not include home-schooled students or dropouts.
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It results in abiasedsample, a non-random sample of a population (or non-human factors) in which all individuals, or instances, were not equally likely to have been selected.
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Another example is online and phone-in polls, which are biased samples because the respondents are self-selected.
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