Sentence examples for bias section from inspiring English sources

Systematic reviews should be conducted according to a previously prepared protocol and based on studies with least potential of bias (Section 4.2.3, 5.2.2, 5.2.4 and 6.2.6 GMTA).

The study findings may thus result from the actual therapeutic intervention or rather from influences of other factors or forms of bias such as selection bias, information basis, attrition bias, reporting bias, and publication bias (Section 7.3.11 IQWiG GM 4.0).

None of these analyses showed evidence of strong bias (Section S1 in Appendix S1), but we suggest caution in extrapolating to specific countries outside of our dataset.

37 The 2011 version of the handbook, however, argues that "vested interests" should not be included in the risk of bias assessment, which "should be used to assess specific aspects of methodology that might be been influenced by vested interests and which may lead directly to a risk of bias" (section 8.15.1.5).

Information on trial author-industry financial ties or employment was reported in the context of the risk of bias assessment in 15 reviews (10%), including five (3%) that reported this information only in the risk of bias section of the text, seven (5%) only in the risk of bias table, two (1%) in both locations, and one (1%) in both locations plus the risk of bias figure.

Concerning the Bias section, none of the studies provided information on the procedures for allocation concealment.

Letting sens1 = P[ Y > 0∣ X > 0] = P[ Y > 0] / P[ X > 0] (the sensitivity for a single smear), and recalling that the specificity is one, and Solving for p we have the mle,, which is biased (see Bias and bias correction section and Reference 8).

The performance of the method was evaluated as described in the Evaluation of bias correction section.

As this approach might overestimate eruption frequency, we test for bias in section 3.1.

After calculating the true, observed and corrected areas under the curves, decision errors were assessed using the metrics described in the Evaluation of bias correction section.

Specificity in particular varies between studies depending upon patient population, nature of reporting and referral bias (see section "Factors affecting observed diagnostic performance"), and averages do not give a clear indication of the performance of the technique.