Sentences with phrase «less potential bias»

That meant there was less potential bias from these factors, Cook explained.

Not exact matches

To assess this potential bias we examined whether cases with longer recall intervals might report fan use less often than cases interviewed closer to the date of infant death.

As an alternative, some programs have begun to incorporate measures of non-cognitive skills (e.g., structured interviews that specifically assess these skills [20]-RRB- as less biased and much stronger predictors of potential for long - term success.

Our estimates would be downwardly biased if students with less growth potential selected into charter schools.

Honest questions: I assume you're not saying that I should not discuss potential biases in your analyses, but that I should about it less?

Not only that, but there is increasingly compelling evidence that the recent short - term slowdown in the surface temperature record was much less pronounced than previously estimated, if rapid Arctic warming is fully reflected, along with potential biases from the changing mix of sea surface temperature measurement sources in recent years.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

Although this study has some shortcomings such as small sample size, potential selection bias, and less than ideal controls (eg, treatment group was seen for a longer period than control group), the results are promising and consistent with data from previous studies in non-medical patients with depression.