Sentences with phrase «potential biases introduced»

A tag attached to the barcode acts as a unique molecular identifier to help account for potential biases introduced through polymerase chain reaction — based amplification.

This bias would not have similarly affected the «corridor method» used by Hantemirov and Shiyatov themselves, since this method which did not preserve centennial - scale variability and Hantemirov and Shiyatov would not have been concerned about potential bias introduced by how their cores were selected on a RCS chronology method that they themselves were not using.»

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The results of this study should be interpreted with caution because the breastfeeding team collected breastfeeding outcome data from the intervention group, thus introducing the potential for bias.

As discussed above, these variables are used to account for the potential selection bias introduced because of the differences between the populations at choice schools compared to traditional public schools.

Cook13 also went the additional step to be self - skeptical of potential bias that could have been introduced by raters (as Andy Skuce aptly pointed out with section 4.1, and Tom Curtis has repeated pointed out), by asking scientist to self - rate their own research.

It is uncertain what potential biases were introduced by the compensation provided, or the differences in compensation, but we expect these to be small.

Potential bias may have been introduced by using the local ACCHSs to access the community, as we would expect people with greater links to the health services to be sampled.

In addition, another limitation arises from the use of self - report measures, that introduces issues of potential reporter - bias and shared method variance.

Second, these data are based on retrospective self - reports of the occurrence and timing of mental disorders and suicidal behavior, which introduce potential problems with underreporting and biased recall [64].