downward bias
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdownwardandbias
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downward
adjective
uk/ˈdaʊn.wəd/us/ˈdaʊn.wɚd/
moving towards a ...
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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 ofdownwardandbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Moreover, the expectation of a slightdownwardbiasshould only strengthen confidence in significant findings.
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Thus, thedownwardbiason estimates of genetic effects in these data due to errors of measurement are likely to be substantial.
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This will also contribute todownwardbiasin estimated genetic parameters because reconstructed families are assumed to be unrelated.
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Any incorrectly assigned full-sib pairs will depress true relatedness within reconstructed families, resulting indownwardbiasof trait heritabilities.
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This apparent contradiction might reflect adownwardbiasin the estimates of conventional net investment, due to incomplete data on gross fixed capital formation.
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However, they are likely to suffer from a greaterdownwardbias.
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This finding was not surprising, given that thedownwardbiasin the second moments is partly a function of the between cluster variance.
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In addition, there may exist adownwardbiasin reported emissions, and this bias may be reasonably assumed to increase in the corruption level.
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This finding is largely explained by thedownwardbiasin the second moments introduced by simple bootstrapping of clustered data.
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This finding was probably due to the slightdownwardbiasin the second moments; the degree of bias is an inverse function of the number of clusters.
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Conversely, adownwardbiason the responses could arise if respondents disregarded our instructions to assume that there was no pain or risk associated with the unnamed test.
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A dummy for the two lowest categories of consideration shows adownwardbiasin the probit step of table 2 with a significance at the 10 per cent level.
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As a result, the estimate of use-failure rate may be downward biased.
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As a result, the estimated contraceptive failure rate may be downward biased, and the size of the underestimate is not known.
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The restricted estimates of the common autoregressive coefficient in the outer regimes is slightly downward biased for small values of the threshold and slightly upward biased for large values.
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