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Selection Bias(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Selection Bias
Used for/see from:
  • n: Sampling Biases
  • n: Sampling Error
  • n: Selection Biases
  • Bias, Selection
  • Sampling Bias
  • n: Bias, Sampling
  • n: Biases, Sampling
  • n: Biases, Selection
  • n: Error, Sampling
  • n: Errors, Sampling
  • n: Sampling Errors

usually NIM

The introduction of error due to systematic differences in the characteristics between those selected and those not selected for a given study. In sampling bias, error is the result of failure to ensure that all members of the reference population have a known chance of selection in the sample.

91(90); was see under BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY) 1990

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