Sentences with phrase «statistical bias»

Test - makers also use statistical bias - reduction techniques.

There's bound to be statistical bias in one direction or the other.

But Hugh's data has the advantage that the sample was objectively selected, whereas the DBW survey had the problem that the sample was self - selected, which usually introduces some sort of statistical bias into the results.

They may be the result of statistical biases: in other words, if you were to look at a different data sample the anomaly would probably disappear.

In another one of our working papers, which links our result to various probability puzzles and statistical biases, we found that the simplest version of our problem is nearly equivalent to the famous Monty Hall problem, which stumped the eminent mathematician Paul Erdős and many other smart people.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

By consistently generating specific environmental states, niche construction co-directs adaptive evolution by imposing a statistical bias on selection.»

Unfortunately, studies that advocate a low - carbohydrate diet for improved cardiovascular health are often fraught with errors, including conflicts of interest, short - term study design, statistical bias, and misleading language.

Next, we'll consider two sources of error: statistical bias and statistical imprecision.

If the stock market goes down during the first 5 days of the trading year, then the stock market's result that year is random (i.e. the January Effect is nonexistent and has no statistical bias).

Statistical bias can cause the results to be flawed.

Changes in distribution also has several causes but again their data selection guaranteed a statistical bias.

I reviewed Mann's method, and found that the statistical bias he applied was for temperatures proportional to the time rate of change of temperatures, which defines an exponential function of temperature independent of the initial data.

Rather, your de facto claim is that the jury members are all individually biased and that juries should represent the statistical biases of the community instead.