Sentences with phrase «negative selection bias»

Such rules are also a bit eerie because they remind me of short - term trading and might expose one to negative selection bias (sell your winners, hold your losers) if one does the math wrong.

There was also the potential for negative selection bias, because MD Anderson tends to treat patients with fewer than four central nervous system lesions with a stereotactic approach.

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The key is being aware of our selection bias to seek only positive news and data on the subject or supplement we're interested in, but ignore negative or adverse ones.

But it's lunacy to believe that the implementation of popular capitalization - based indices is costless, that their negative selection and weighting bias is zero, or that their implicit trading cost as a percentage of aggregate assets is currently below that of well - designed smart - beta offerings.

Fortunately, I believe there's plenty of stock selection techniques, or filters, you can employ — some of these are all about focusing on your existing (and / or unconscious) negative investing biases, while others are more about promoting positive biases.

The selection of works includes large - scale prints exploring the negative effects of stereotypes on the lives of people of color and how these stereotypes give rise to biased laws and ideologies.

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.