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Coaches are faced with the difficult task of identifying and selecting athletes to their team. Despite its widespread practice in sport, there is still much to learn about improving the identification and selection process.
Kathryn Johnston, Joseph Baker
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Credible Mendelian Randomization Studies in the Presence of Selection Bias Using Control Exposures
Selection bias is increasingly acknowledged as a limitation of Mendelian randomization (MR). However, few methods exist to assess this issue. We focus on two plausible causal structures relevant to MR studies and illustrate the data-generating process ...
Zhao Yang +3 more
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Reward predictions bias attentional selection
Attention selects stimuli for perceptual and cognitive processing according to an adaptive selection schedule. It has long been known that attention selects stimuli that are task relevant or perceptually salient.
Brian August Anderson +2 more
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Variable Selection Bias in Classification Trees Based on Imprecise Probabilities [PDF]
Classification trees based on imprecise probabilities provide an advancement of classical classification trees. The Gini Index is the default splitting criterion in classical classification trees, while in classification trees based on imprecise ...
Strobl, Carolin
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Natural selection. III. Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection [PDF]
George Williams defined an evolutionary unit as hereditary information for which the selection bias between competing units dominates the informational decay caused by imperfect transmission.
Frank, Steven A.
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COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives; however, understanding the long-term effectiveness of these vaccines is imperative to developing recommendations for booster doses and other precautions. Comparisons of mortality rates between more and less
Vladimir Atanasov +9 more
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Statistical Sources of Variable Selection Bias in Classification Tree Algorithms Based on the Gini Index [PDF]
Evidence for variable selection bias in classification tree algorithms based on the Gini Index is reviewed from the literature and embedded into a broader explanatory scheme: Variable selection bias in classification tree algorithms based on the Gini ...
Strobl, Carolin
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Present day low participation rates in certain parts of research is concerning. It is not unusual that half (or even more) of those invited to participate in a research project decline the invitation.
Jørn Olsen
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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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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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