Sentence examples for misclassification would underestimate from inspiring English sources
We expect that disease misclassification would underestimate the association between ETS exposure and serious RSV disease.
Such non-differential misclassifications would underestimate the associations between alcohol habits and semen quality and reproductive hormones and cannot explain our findings.
However, this misclassification bias would underestimate our findings and lead to the results here being more conservative than they really are.
This misclassification of cases would underestimate the effect of PPI injury and make a positive finding more difficult, leading to a more conservative estimate of association.
However, this misclassification would also underestimate the extent of severe GAS illness in the LTCF population.
Although the specificities of these algorithms were high, there is potential for some misclassification of ethnic categories that would underestimate differences among ethnic categories.
Thus, epidemiology studies conducted in pregnant women where the exposure assessment strategy relies on DCBA concentrations from a single spot sample will likely result in a moderate level of exposure misclassification, which, if non-differential, would underestimate (bias toward the null) true associations.
This non-differential misclassification would have underestimated our effect size.
22 One final limitation of this study was the potential that residual misclassification of G6PD-deficient subjects by the quantitative spectrophometric analysis occurred, which would underestimate the sensitivity of the BinaxNOW G6PD.
Nondifferential misclassification would result in an unpredictable bias for associations with low PCE exposure, but would underestimate associations with high PCE exposure (Rothman et al. 2008).
That is, there is misclassification of participants as 'not hypertensive' when in fact they are – if this bias was equally likely to affect those NW as working, it would underestimate any association between NW and the outcome.
