Sentences with phrase «combining different biases»

Not exact matches

A potential shortcoming of supermatrices that include both mitochondrial and nuclear data is that combined analyses mask genuine cytonuclear dissociation (i.e., mito - nuclear discordance), which occurs when nuclear and mitochondrial genes have different evolutionary histories owing to processes such as introgression of mtDNA, demographic disparities, and sex - biased asymmetries including male - biased dispersal [72]--[75].

Statisticians can advise on how best to combine data from different sources, how to identify and adjust for biases in different measurement systems, and how to deal with changes in the spatial and temporal coverage of measurements.

Lyman and colleagues combined different ocean monitoring groups» data sets, taking into account different sources of bias and uncertainty — due to researchers using different instruments, the lack of instrument coverage in the ocean, and different ways of analyzing data used among research groups — and put forth a warming rate estimate for the upper ocean that it is more useful in climate models.