Sentence examples for modest bias from inspiring English sources

The election is close enough that if there is even a modest bias in the polls toward Mr. Obama, the president's chances will be tenuous.

In order to determine the extent to which these biases may be affecting results, "Expected Returns to Angel Investors" includes a few "bias tests," most of which point to modest bias or none at all.

These experiments revealed a modest bias in the expression of these genes in different tissues.

Based on the CO92 gene density of 83.9% [13], this ratio reflects a modest bias towards a lower occurrence of SNPs within genes (binomial test; P-value = 0.11).

In contrast, a huge disparity in transition bias exists between these codon positions in the b-like alleles, due to the combined effects of a modest bias towards transitions at positions 1+2 and a sharp bias towards transversions at the third position.

Especially, we observed modest bias of the strand-specific transcripts that matched with the PolII orientation in the asymmetric clusters.

The existing reserve system has relatively modest biases with respect to current species distributions and climate.

7a) "Template" GWA analyses that focus on single SNPs may provide modest biases toward identification of large genes that contain many SNPs; 7b) The current analyses require nominally significant associations for multiple SNPs that lie within narrow chromosomal regions.

Other researchers have shown that additional rounds of amplification yield reproducible results for a single RNA sample with only modest biases [ 6, 10].

However, estimates of the error correlation suggest only modest simultaneity bias.

This resulting biomat matures over the first growing season with operational parameters such as HRT further exerting a modest selective bias on community succession.