People [with financial links to the companies] should realise they are probably biased and as readers we should be aware of probable bias".
Mr. Tauzin said the information painted "a very disturbing picture, I think, of probable bias".
According to Roth & Fonagy, the results of the few available studies on brief dynamic therapy are flawed by methodological problems and a probable bias due to investigator alliance.
While the causal relationship between low PC levels and MOF development cannot be proven in an observational study setting, one probable bias could be excluded.
This probable bias to highly expressed genes could have contributed to the lower incidence of positive selection in our data compared to the studies cited above that looked at a majority of the genes in the genome.
We claim that our study is less distorted by a probable bias from a specific selection of species, in that we restrict our analyses on model orthologous sequences from two comparable transcriptomes.
The low frequency of T-DNA tags corresponding to known or putative protein-coding genes (19.3%) also suggested a probable bias toward intergenic and/or regulatory regions (Blaise et al. 2007).
One weaknesses of this study would be the probable bias of the population, which is small in size and not necessarily represents the whole population with chronic periodontitis in Japan.
As a general rule, vital registration data, suitably corrected for ill-defined coding and probable systematic biases in certifying deaths to non-specific vascular, cancer and injury codes were used to estimate the cause of death pattern.
The inverse association is further explained by probable misclassification bias of the smoking status, confounding by unknown factors, and by selection biases of the controls as suggested by Hui et al. [ 19].
