Sentences with phrase «much of a selection bias»

The danger is focusing on an idea that's too much of a personal hobby, they say, because there's too much of a selection bias to make you think it's something important, or worth doing.

Not exact matches

Your graph on how much a client should bet in order to cover his fees is meaningless and is guilty of Ma's rule number 2; selection bias.

It makes sense that this study does not have much validity if the only women who participated in the study were those who agreed to document their experiences based out of their own interest (self - selection bias) rather than a random sample that covered a diverse range of experiences.

But much of the college advantage can be explained by «selection bias» — the differences between those who tend to complete college and those who don't.

With few exceptions, researchers are not able to determine how much selection bias exists when various quasi-experimental approaches are used in place of experimental ones within a school choice context.

The results in Table 10 support the notion that the observational study design does a good job of controlling for selection bias in the evaluation of charter effects (or that there is not much selection bias in the first place).

, b) plays a role, but only within the 10 % stretch band, c) matters, but one can always find a portfolio's worth of low absolute valuation stuff (if one doesn't worry about the implied adverse selection bias that when everything else is pricey, the cheap stuff is much more likely to be cheap for a good reason), or d) something else?