Sentence examples for consequent bias from inspiring English sources

The variability in histological grading and the consequent bias, which impacts on every work on this subject, is more difficult to overcome.

Thus, in our final analysis we had a very small number of true-negative lesions, with a consequent bias in the specificity calculation.

Multiple imputation has several advantages over complete-case analyses, wherein deleted observations lead to diminished precision of the outcome measure, resulting from the reduction of sample size and consequent bias, when the missing data are not randomly distributed.

These inconsistencies may be due to the presence of different sires in the analyses, different dataset sizes, or to the close relative reduction procedure that we adopted to decrease the effect of population structure and consequent bias.

In order to minimize the consequent bias, a stratified randomization method was employed based on age (>65 or <65 years old), history of green tea consumption, and history of mind-body exercise to assign participants to placebo, GTP, placebo+TC, or GTP+TC group.

Claims database analyses have potential selection bias, miscoding of information and consequent biases in estimation.

Additional non-glandular components of dense tissue may vary across levels of risk factors with consequent biased results.

Replacing time dummies with these variables increases the risk of unobserved heterogeneity in the time dimension and consequent biases.

Twenty-four hourinerine collections mostly came from small surveys that were not based on national probability sampling with consequent sampling bias.

We observed that more than 50% of the identified trinucleotide repeat motifs in sugarcane were GC-rich, possibly due to their high GC content [ 3, 5] and consequent usage bias in the coding sequences [ 20].

Given the long time between surgery and sampling in VICTOR and consequent sampling bias against early recurrence, we suggest that a requirement is an analysis of telomere length and survival based on a set of CRC cases sampled close to diagnosis, ideally before chemotherapy, and with excellent follow-up data.