possible bias

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meanings of possibleand bias

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possible
adjective
uk /ˈpɒs.ə.bəl/ us /ˈpɑː.sə.bəl/
able to be done or achieved, or able ...
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bias
noun
uk /ˈbaɪ.əs/ us /ˈbaɪ.əs/
the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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Examples of possible bias

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One might also interview authentic patients of all physicians as a way of "triangulation" to correct for possiblebias from the observers.
Selecting only subjects with collateral data introduces possiblebias.
Assuming constant within-year survival introduced a possiblebias.
Democratic partisans might object that this third iteration does not yet include any adjustment for possiblebias in registration data.
A limitation inherent to observational research of the variety exemplified by this study is the possiblebias that comes with sampling.
We discuss each source of possiblebias in turn as we explain the choice of variables and model specification.
Even the dictionary look-up technique involves an element of possiblebias in favour of agreeing with the machine.
Such systems appear to provide objective, public, and impartial ways to allocate organs by reducing institutional and professional discretion and possiblebias.
This procedure should ensure that concerns over possiblebias caused by using a purely systematic method of collection are allayed.
Accounting for this possiblebias, we use an instrumental variable approach.
To examine the possiblebias introduced thereby, we obtained # estimates for our multivariate analysis by bootstrap with 10 000 replicates.
To address this possiblebias, we re-fit our full model incorporating age effects but found only trivial changes in our parameter estimates.
Certainly, required statements of conflict of interest from authors and editors of leading medical journals are intended to reveal possiblebias.
Another possiblebias results from differential sampling, that is, over/under sampling physicians on characteristics that impact the performance evaluations.
We are uncertain, however, about the nature of any possiblebias.
In this case we would be concerned with possiblebias due to party-specific effects omitted from the model.
Because this may introduce a possiblebias in the results (data retrieval bias), retrieving as much of this missing data as possible is important.
To avoid possiblebias of estimate caused by over simplification, a two-component exponential function was applied.
The directions of possiblebias are difficult to estimate but it was noticed that the active professional fathers were less willing to co-operate in the work.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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