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Free sign upThe phrase "avoid selections" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to refrain from making choices or picking options in a particular context.
Example: "In this exercise, please avoid selections that may lead to biased results."
Alternatives: "refrain from choices" or "steer clear of options".
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If you can't, at least you can avoid selections that would be difficult for your recipient to use.
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The schools and the subjects were randomly selected to avoid selection bias.
To avoid selection bias, patients with heart failure are selected electronically from the medical records.
To avoid selection bias, the set of significant features were re-selected based on samples only in the training set in each cross-validation round.
To avoid selection bias, the ORs to be observed were randomly selected ("picking from a hat") each morning.
The parameter value must be selected (e.g. through cross validation) to avoid selection of a sub-optimal parameter value.
These subjects were selected by combining previous and current adherence level criteria to avoid selection bias.
To avoid selection of solvent molecules, ligands containing >8 heavy atoms were extracted from selected PDB files.
In order to avoid selection bias, no further selection was made.
Assignment of respondents to blocks should be random to avoid selection bias.
To avoid selection bias, in- and exclusion criteria were established prior to the literature search.
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