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Purpose The relative age effect (RAE) is a widely reported phenomenon in elite sports context. However, little is known about its occurrence in other levels of practice, such as school sports.
Henrique de Oliveira Castro +7 more
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Positive confirmation bias in the acquisition of information [PDF]
An experiment is reported which tests for positive confirmation bias in a setting in which individuals choose what information to buy, prior to making a decision.
Sugden, R. +2 more
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Consequences de la sélection de variables sur l'interprétation des résultats en régression linéaire multiple [PDF]
Consequences of variable selection on the interpretation of the results in multiple linear regression. A priori or a posteriori variable selection is a common practise in multiple linear regression.
Palm R., Akossou AYJ.
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Avoiding selection bias in gravitational wave astronomy
When searching for gravitational waves in the data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors, it is common to use a detection threshold to reduce the number of background events which are unlikely to be the signals of interest.
C Messenger, J Veitch
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This paper assesses the effects of occupational segregation on the gender wage gap in urban Colombia between 1986 and 2000. The empirical methodology involves a two step procedure where by the occupational distributions ofworkers by gender aremodelled ...
Jairo Guillermo Isaza Castro
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Objectives Longitudinal survey data allow for the estimation of developmental trajectories of substance use from adolescence to young adulthood, but these estimates may be subject to attrition bias.
Yajuan Si +7 more
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Bias of selection on human copy-number variants.
Although large-scale copy-number variation is an important contributor to conspecific genomic diversity, whether these variants frequently contribute to human phenotype differences remains unknown.
Duc-Quang Nguyen +2 more
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De-Selection Bias Recommendation Algorithm Based on Propensity Score Estimation
There are various biases present in recommendation systems, and recommendation results that do not consider these biases are unfair to users, items, and platforms.
Teng Ma, Su Yu
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Separating Selection Bias and Non-coverage in Internet Panels using Propensity Matching. [PDF]
Many internet-panels consist of self-selected respondents and hence cover a relatively small part of the population. Estimates based on Internet-panels therefore may suffer from non-coverage and self-selection bias. One way to correct for these biases is
Lensvelt-Mulders, G.J.L.M. +6 more
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Measurement equivalence in mixed mode surveys
Surveys increasingly use mixed mode data collection (e.g., combining face-to-face and web) because this controls costs and helps to maintain good response rates.
Joop J. Hox +2 more
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