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Assessing response bias from missing quality of life data: The Heckman method

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2004
Background The objective of this study was to demonstrate the use of the Heckman two-step method to assess and correct for bias due to missing health related quality of life (HRQL) surveys in a clinical study of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients ...
Spertus John A, Magid David J, Plomondon Mary E, Sales Anne E, Rumsfeld John S   +4 more
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Combining patient reported outcomes and EHR data to understand population level treatment needs: correcting for selection bias in the migraine signature study

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2021
Background Electronic health records (EHR) data can be used to understand population level quality of care especially when supplemented with patient reported data. However, survey non-response can result in biased population estimates.
Walter F. Stewart, Xiaowei Yan, Alice Pressman, Alice Jacobson, Shruti Vaidya, Victoria Chia, Dawn C. Buse, Richard B. Lipton   +7 more
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Using occupancy analysis to validate the use of footprint tunnels as a method for monitoring the hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus [PDF]

, 2014
Indirect survey methods are often used in studies of mammals, but are susceptible to biases caused by failure to detect species where they are present.
Anderson, Burnham, Guillera-Arroita, Hof, Hof, Hubert, Huijser, MacKenzie, McArdle, Rondinini, Toms, Wilson, Young   +12 more
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USING THE SNOWBALL METHOD IN MARKETING RESEARCH ON HIDDEN POPULATIONS [PDF]

Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011
Following the classical sampling theory, the researcher selects samples of people, businesses or others, in order to obtain the desired information. Drawing the samples is usually done by randomly selecting from a list representing the target population.
MIRELA-CRISTINA VOICU, ALINA-MIHAELA BABONEA   +1 more
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The use of Administrative Data to combat non-response

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2019
Background The issues arising due to participant non-response are problematic for many surveys. An international trend of falling survey response rates has led to more researchers questioning the extent to which non-response can cause issues with ...
Matthew Moore, Alasdair Rutherford, Elaine Douglas, David Bell   +3 more
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Fostering Creativity and Critical Thinking in College: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Enhancing creativity and critical thinking have garnered the attention of educators and researchers for decades. They have been highlighted as essential skills for the 21st century.
Ji Hoon Park, Weihua Niu, Li Cheng, Heavon Allen   +3 more
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Subsampling MCMC - An introduction for the survey statistician [PDF]

, 2018
The rapid development of computing power and efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation algorithms have revolutionized Bayesian statistics, making it a highly practical inference method in applied work.
Dang, Khue-Dung, Kohn, Robert, Quiroz, Matias, Tran, Minh-Ngoc, Villani, Mattias   +4 more
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Difference Imaging of Lensed Quasar Candidates in the SDSS Supernova Survey Region [PDF]

, 2008
Difference imaging provides a new way to discover gravitationally lensed quasars because few non-lensed sources will show spatially extended, time variable flux.
Alard, Alcock, Bolton, Bolton, Bolton, Brian C. Lacki, Christopher S. Kochanek, Frieman, Hartman, Hartman, Inada, Jiang, Johnston, Kochanek, Koopmans, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Masamune Oguri, Miralda Escudé, Mitchell, Morgan, Naohisa Inada, Oguri, Oguri, Pindor, Poindexter, Refsdal, Rusin, Sako, Schneider, Schneider, Sesar, Vanden Berk, Wilhite, Woźniak, York   +34 more
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Prevalence of non-preferred family planning methods among reproductive-aged women in Burkina Faso: results from a cross-sectional, population-based study

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2023
Family planning researchers have traditionally focused efforts on understanding contraceptive non-use and promoting contraceptive uptake. Recently, however, more scholars have been exploring method dissatisfaction, questioning the assumption that ...
Brooke W. Bullington, Nathalie Sawadogo, Katherine Tumlinson, Ana Langer, Abdramane Soura, Pascal Zabre, Ali Sie, Leigh Senderowicz   +7 more
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Semantic differential scale method can reveal multi-dimensional aspects of mind perception

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
As humans, we tend to perceive minds in both living and non-living entities, such as robots. From a questionnaire developed in a previous mind perception study, authors found that perceived minds could be located on two dimensions experience and agency ...
Hideyuki Takahashi, Midori Ban, Minoru Asada   +2 more
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