Sentence examples for biased period from inspiring English sources

Given the method of recruitment was biased toward including all depressed women in the final months of recruiting, all participants recruited in the biased period of the study, regardless of depression status, were excluded from prevalence analyses.

Recruitment rates during this biased period were similar (average ten per week) to rates during the initial 12-month recruiting phase (average seven per week).

The comparison of these two snapshots of mobility rates should not be overtly biased by period effects since in both time intervals overall employment has been growing: the first period (1994 1995) corresponds to the beginning of the growth of employment in the past 11 years, while the second one (2003 2004) corresponds to a phase of ongoing growth of employment.

Specifically, we reason that projections or comparisons of prevalence-based healthy life expectancy (HLE) are in many cases biased in period prevalence-based models unless one takes into account the thanatological age pattern of prevalence, as well as mortality differences.

By proper control of the biasing period, a TiB2 coating with high hardness and good adhesion strength can be produced.

Cathodic micro-discharges, and to a greater extent the applied cathodic bias, influence the anodic breakdown coming immediately after, and therefore, the process behaviour during the anodic bias period.

These estimated differences may be due to sampling bias, period of collection and data source and also due to the broad definition of chronic diseases.

Furthermore, it may be biased at periods longer than a year because of the time changes of the Dst baseline (see for instance Lühr and Maus 2010; Olsen et al. 2005b).

One cluster relates to the stage of flower bud undifferentiation whereas alternately cluster biases the period of flower bud differentiation.

However, this trend appears to be biased by a period of very high prices between 1860 and 1880 when the industry began.

An example of this occurred during the first 8 months of follow-up in the BMA study, when more seroconversions during the early part of the period biased the BED estimate, resulting in an underestimate of the conventionally estimated incidence (Table 1).