significant bias
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandbias
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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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 ofsignificantandbiasfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The main evidence cited supporting this proposal has come from the interpretation that dream content shows asignificantbiastoward representing threatening events.
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Further, nosignificantbiasaway from first codon positions, in terms of the distribution of polymorphic sites, could be detected.
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This would not cause asignificantbiassince the majority of firms operating in 1990 were small (approximately 80 per cent).
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Analyses of sample characteristics indicated that nosignificantbiaswas introduced by the attrition between the first and second interviews.
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If his sample of 18,000 includessignificantbias, perhaps it would have been corrected in the larger figure.
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There is as yet no indication ofsignificantbiasin the measurements, in either the single- or dual-jet flows.
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We defined a data set as showingsignificantbiasif the measured bias exceeded the 90th percentile of the permuted bias distribution.
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Finally, 64 cells did not exhibit anysignificantbiasin response to stimulus orientation.
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This difference resulted in asignificantbiastoward organic conditions with focal neurological signs in the study samples and an overestimation of the proportion of reversible dementia in the population.
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Thesignificantbiasin the sample was higher in the earlier than in the later years which would make it wrong to draw conclusions by comparing one year with another.
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Overall there is also asignificantbiasin distribution towards the southern hemisphere.
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Even a small number of studies lost in the file drawer can result in asignificantbias.
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The withholding of negative publications is a widely known phenomenon that leads to asignificantbias, often referred to as the file drawer effect.
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In fact, most departments had a small but statisticallysignificantbiasin favor of women.
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This is important when there is asignificantbiasin an image, such as from haze.
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However, it is not small enough to cause us to believe that the coin has asignificantbias.
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However, there could have been more significant biases in variables that we could not assess.
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Our response rate was just over 60 %, which means that there may have been significant biases due to non-participation.
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