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Furthermore, despite analysis of response bias being a critical factor in the assessment of sample representativeness, less than half (44%) of published surveys of doctors discuss it and only 18% provide any systematic analysis[ 32].
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Out of the 54 modeled taxa, 10 (18.5%) presented ERS below 3.01, indicating a significantly low environmental representativeness (i.e. less than 30%) in germplasm collections; 7 (13%) taxa presented an ERS between 3.01 and 5; 7 taxa (13%) between 5.01 and 7.5; and 30 taxa (55.6%) above 7.5.
However, in epidemiological studies that establish risk associations, representativeness is less important than securing adequate sample sizes to garner statistically significant results.
Second, while data of almost 400 children were collected for this study, one should keep in mind that the response rate was less than 45%, thereby questioning the representativeness of the present sample.
Finally, I am afraid of the poor representativeness of the study outcome for Korean inhabitants because less than 40% (2,044/5,178) of the initially enrolled population was included in the final risk estimation.
The subject's overall characteristics can be found in Additional file 2. Although the primary analysis set was less than the calculated sample size, the representativeness of the effective sample was not affected, because the sample size was based on the theoretically possible number of unique symptom profiles and the included subjects presented approximately 1400 different profiles.
While a formal analysis of nonrespondents was not possible, we have the impression that workers on night shifts responded less than day-shift workers, which would limit the representativeness of our results to mainly day shift baggage handling, and also that some team managers were less active in encouraging their team members into participating.
In order to ensure the accurate representativeness of each time-activity category, six records were excluded a priori because they lasted for less than 60 min in total across all the sampling sessions for a particular time-activity category.
As less than 2%of the Egyptian population lives in those governorates, the impact on the representativeness of this survey is limited, and in the multivariate analyses we statistically controlled for region of residence.
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