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[Reduced selection bias].

open access: yesTidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 2013
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When selection becomes selection bias

European Journal of Endocrinology
Abstract Selection in clinical research does not necessarily result in selection bias. To understand when selection leads to bias, we discuss collider-conditioning bias, which is a common and often self-inflicted type of selection bias. Collider-conditioning bias may be difficult to recognize, and paying more attention to the bias could ...
Kristina Laugesen   +3 more
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Selection Bias and Self-Selection

1987
The problem of selection bias in economic and social statistics arises when a rule other than simple random sampling is used to sample the underlying population that is the object of interest. The distorted representation of a true population as a consequence of a sampling rule is the essence of the selection problem.
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Selection on Codon Bias

Annual Review of Genetics, 2008
In a wide variety of organisms, synonymous codons are used with different frequencies, a phenomenon known as codon bias. Population genetic studies have shown that synonymous sites are under weak selection and that codon bias is maintained by a balance between selection, mutation, and genetic drift.
Ruth, Hershberg, Dmitri A, Petrov
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Wage Comparisons--A Selectivity Bias [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Political Economy, 1974
The economics of information have been established by now as an integral part of economic analysis. However, surprisingly little has been written on the implications of search (and in particular, job search) for the estimation of the wage function and its ramifications in such cases as the estimation of the determinants of labor force participation ...
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