Selection Bias
The introduction of error due to systematic differences in the characteristics between those selected and those not selected for a given study. In sampling bias, error is the result of failure to ensure that all members of the reference population have a known chance of selection in the sample.
Year introduced: 1991(1990)
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Tree Number(s): N05.715.350.150.775, N06.850.490.500.500
MeSH Unique ID: D015983
Entry Terms:
- Bias, Selection
- Selection Biases
- Biases, Selection
- Sampling Bias
- Bias, Sampling
- Sampling Biases
- Biases, Sampling
- Sampling Error
- Error, Sampling
- Errors, Sampling
- Sampling Errors
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