bias result
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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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result
noun
uk/rɪˈzʌlt/us/rɪˈzʌlt/
something that happens or exists because of ...
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(Definition ofbiasandresultfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The first is a sampling bias resulting from respective exclusion criteria of the studies from which patients were drawn.
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Imputation is important when missing values are not randomly distributed, which could bias results.
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This raises questions about how representative of farm system types the samples are and whether an individual farm within the smaller group can bias results.
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The authors simply do not address the potential effects of selection bias resulting from migration.
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The problem with this approach is that the population in clinical trials is a selected group of patients, which has the potential to bias results.
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This bias results in a systematic range error; that is, the eyes tend to overshoot close targets and undershoot more distant targets.
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Thus, including these cases appeared less detrimental in terms of potential to bias results than excluding them.
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It is possible that this selection bias resulted in a higher proportion of multiplyresistant strains than in the community.
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Despite the low response in both public and private, bias resulting from this difference is unlikely to affect our results.
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We wished to ensure to the greatest extent possible that this limitation did not bias results of subsequent data analyses.
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The first issue relates to a referral bias resulting from a low threshold of the educated and wealthy parents to clinical referral.
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It is easy to imagine that observational bias resulted in the different identifications of the source of the dust grains.
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However, the coefficient for spending advantage could be underestimated due to endogeneity bias resulting from the negative effect of policy moderation on candidate spending.
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It is impossible to clearly determine to what extent these differences might bias results of indirect comparisons.
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Another possible bias results from differential sampling, that is, over/under sampling physicians on characteristics that impact the performance evaluations.
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