Sentence examples for favourable bias from inspiring English sources

The parietal module receives inputs from V4 so that, as V4 begins to represent the location of possible target features most strongly, these locations receive a favourable bias within the parietal module.

Therefore, the higher activity of AAT demonstrates a certain disturbance in the protease-antiprotease balance and its favourable bias toward the increased activity of antiproteolytic defence mechanisms.

This study of a major subgroup of applicants in the first year of operation suggests that it has an inherent favourable bias to men and students from a higher socioeconomic class or independent or grammar schools.

This study of a major sub-group of applicants in the first year of operation suggests that it has an inherent favourable bias to male applicants and those from a higher socioeconomic class or from independent or grammar schools.

10 Reliance on such tests might be overoptimistic: an assessment of the recently introduced and widely used UK clinical aptitude test concluded that it has an inherent favourable bias to men, to students from more affluent backgrounds, and to students educated at private or selective entry secondary schools.

The sources of bias and variability will be highlighted and recommendations are provided how to determine the test set size in order to obtain a favourable bias-variability trade-off.

The difference was explained by the combination of both a prognostically favourable lead-time bias and stage migration, as a result of more advanced imaging techniques (Feinstein et al, 1985).

However, with case studies, there may be a reporting bias towards favourable outcome.

In 2008 Turner et al published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that the scientific journal literature on antidepressants was biased towards "favourable" results. 1 The authors compared the results in journal based reports of trials with data on the corresponding trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration FDAA) when applying for licensing.

Optimal blinding of both the patient and the physician-researcher is another clear asset of the sham-surgical model: patients are biased towards favourable outcomes after surgical intervention because they want to believe that they chose the correct option for their care.

This leads to a selection bias of prognostically favourable patients for surgery (Ollila, 2006).