If we are interested in who studies with whom, and males disproportionately studied with other males and females with other females, this would exemplify some level of homophily by gender.
As an example, we can imagine a hypothetical college class in which a network of study partners reveals that students who received "A's" disproportionately studied with other students receiving "A's".
The brief, written on behalf of People Against the Death Penalty and other groups, cites evidence that blacks are sentenced to death disproportionately and studies that show upstate prosecutors in New York seek death more often than downstate prosecutors.
In this way, we decreased the impact of inspection bias due to nondisease genes being disproportionately poorly studied.
Finally, publication bias is possible as studies showing no association between ethnicity and cancer diagnostic delays may have failed to be published, leaving us with disproportionately positive studies.
Still, even the nation's most affluent Asians live in neighborhoods that are disproportionately Asian, the study found.
Furthermore, for PCB-118, a dioxin-like pentachlorinated biphenyl disproportionately prevalent in study samples, the dredging effect was more significant than the temporal decline, with near-constant concentrations before dredging, an increase during dredging, and a significant decline after dredging.
Laboratory mice are used in animal studies disproportionately more (95%% according to the US Foundation for Biomedical Research) than any other animal species.
This is especially true for younger travellers, who are disproportionately represented in studies assessing infectious symptoms post-travel [ 23- 31].
17 18 These networks provide a visual and quantitative synopsis of the treatments studied and the amount of randomised evidence supporting current treatment guidelines and indicate whether some treatments or comparisons have been studied disproportionately.
