Sentence examples for bias could have distorted from inspiring English sources

This exposure misclassification bias could have distorted exposure-response trends in comparisons involving more than two levels.

For example, common method biases could have distorted the results (Podsakoff et al. 2003).

Inaccurate meat inspection e.g. biased toward superficial lymph nodes could have distorted the relative proportion of lesions found in different organs.

This could have distorted the observed associations.

Firstly, unmeasured confounders relating to regimen choice could have distorted findings.

Undersupply of health services also could have distorted our study findings.

Second, conflict and open distress could have emerged during group meetings, which could have distorted the content of discussions.

This could have distorted the results, although the RCT design would have distributed such confounding equally across both transfusion groups.

Most of the European populations have undergone severe population reductions during recent centuries and several translocations which could have distorted any phylogeographic patterns within the haplogroup [ 6, 71].

In addition, we cannot exclude that when the patient's hand was rewarmed, this could have distorted the Nexfin measurement by changing the microcirculation.

Also the interests of respondents in leadership positions (e.g., clinical managers or heads of department), who primarily represent the clinics' interests, could have distorted the results.