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Accounting for biases in survey-based estimates of population attributable fractions
Population Health Metrics, 2019 Background This paper discusses best practices for estimating fractions of mortality attributable to health exposures in survey data that are biased by observed confounders and unobserved endogenous selection.
Ryan Masters, Eric Reither
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Measurement equivalence in mixed mode surveys
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 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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Selection Bias Requires Selection: The Case of Collider Stratification Bias. [PDF]
Am J Epidemiol, 2023 Abstract In epidemiology, collider stratification bias, the bias resulting from conditioning on a common effect of two causes, is oftentimes considered a type of selection bias, regardless of the conditioning methods employed. In this commentary, we distinguish between two types of collider stratification bias: collider restriction bias ...
Lu H, Gonsalves GS, Westreich D.
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Effects of site‐selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change
Conservation Biology, 2020 Estimates of biodiversity change are essential for the management and conservation of ecosystems. Accurate estimates rely on selecting representative sites, but monitoring often focuses on sites of special interest.
A. Mentges +4 more
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Selection Bias, Confounding, or Information Bias? [PDF]
Hypertension, 2007 To the Editor, As a public health advocate against tobacco use, I find the recent article by Jatoi et al1 interesting and quite informative. As an epidemiologist, I also have a few concerns surrounding the methodologic issues of such study findings. One of the most essential components of a comprehensive tobacco control program is to disseminate the ...
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Consequences de la sélection de variables sur l'interprétation des résultats en régression linéaire multiple [PDF]
Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2005 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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Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022 Objectives Studies have found that prolonged boarding time for intensive care unit (ICU) patients in the emergency department (ED) is associated with higher in‐hospital mortality.
Kevin Gardner +6 more
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Molecular Autism, 2019 BackgroundCurrent global estimates suggest the proportion of the population with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have intellectual disability (ID) is approximately 50%.
Ginny Russell +5 more
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A Robust Classifier Under Missing-Not-At-Random Sample Selection Bias [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The shift between the training and testing distributions is commonly due to sample selection bias, a type of bias caused by non-random sampling of examples to be included in the training set. Although there are many approaches proposed to learn a classifier under sample selection bias, few address the case where a subset of labels in the training set ...
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Impacts of the government-supported investments on the economic farm performance in Austria
Agricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2015 Farm investments in the European Union are supported by the governmental programmes. The evaluation of this programme is challenged through the voluntary participation and heterogeneous observation units.
Stefan KIRCHWEGER +2 more
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