Selection bias: neighbourhood controls and controls selected from those presenting to a Health Unit in a case control study of efficacy of BCG revaccination by de Souza Wayner V, Montarroyos Ulisses R, de Albuquerque Maria, Ximenes Ricardo AA, Dantas Odimariles MS, Varejão Patrícia, Rodrigues Laura C

“…When the exposure of interest is offered in a health facility, selection of controls from attenders at the facility may result in over representation of exposure in controls and selection bias.</p>…”
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The Risk of Selection Bias in a Clinical Multi-Center Cohort Study. Results from the Norwegian Cognitive Impairment After Stroke (Nor-COAST) Study by Kuvås KR, Saltvedt I, Aam S, Thingstad P, Ellekjær H, Askim T

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate whether selection bias occurred by comparing baseline characteristics from participants with non-participants in Nor-COAST.Patients and Methods: Nor-COAST is a prospective cohort multi-center study, recruiting participants from five Norwegian hospitals. …”
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Household income and health‐related quality of life in children receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia: Potential impact of selection bias in health equity research by Haley Newman, Yimei Li, Yuan‐Shung V. Huang, Caitlin W. Elgarten, Regina M. Myers, Jenny Ruiz, Daniel J. Zheng, Alison Barz Leahy, Catherine Aftandilian, Staci D. Arnold, Kira Bona, M. Monica Gramatges, Mallorie B. Heneghan, Kelly W. Maloney, Arunkumar J. Modi, Rajen J. Mody, Elaine Morgan, Jeffrey Rubnitz, Naomi Winick, Jennifer J. Wilkes, Alix E. Seif, Brian T. Fisher, Richard Aplenc, Kelly D. Getz

“…Evaluations of potential selection bias on the association between income and HRQOL suggested differences in HRQOL may be smaller than observed or even in the opposing direction. …”
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Labor market impacts of employment quotas for the disabled in Brazil by Alexandre Gori Maia, Vinicius Gaspar Garcia

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Debiasing the Conversion Rate Prediction Model in the Presence of Delayed Implicit Feedback by Taojun Hu, Xiao-Hua Zhou

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Imputation of Housing Rents for Owners Using Models With Heckman Correction by Beat Hulliger, Gordon Wiegand

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Does access to credit matter in land transfer decision-making? Evidence from China by Xi Yu, Xi Yu, Qin Su, Jianxing Lyu

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Confounding Equivalence in Causal Inference by Pearl Judea, Paz Azaria

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Consequences de la sélection de variables sur l'interprétation des résultats en régression linéaire multiple by Palm R., Akossou AYJ.

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A tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized follow-up studies of exposure effects (ROBINS-E) by Julian P.T. Higgins, Rebecca L. Morgan, Andrew A. Rooney, Kyla W. Taylor, Kristina A. Thayer, Raquel A. Silva, Courtney Lemeris, Elie A. Akl, Thomas F. Bateson, Nancy D. Berkman, Barbara S. Glenn, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Judy S. LaKind, Alexandra McAleenan, Joerg J. Meerpohl, Rebecca M. Nachman, Julie E. Obbagy, Annette O'Connor, Elizabeth G. Radke, Jelena Savović, Holger J. Schünemann, Beverley Shea, Kate Tilling, Jos Verbeek, Meera Viswanathan, Jonathan A.C. Sterne

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IS ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MORE SCALE EFFICIENT THAN CONVENTIONAL AGRICULTURE? THE CASE OF COCOA CULTIVATION IN GHANA by Justice Gameli DJOKOTO, Victor OWUSU, Dadson AWUNYO-VITOR

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How Credible Are Shrinking Wage Elasticities of Married Women Labour Supply? by Duo Qin, Sophie van Huellen, Qing-Chao Wang

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Risk of bias judgments for random sequence generation in Cochrane systematic reviews were frequently not in line with Cochrane Handbook by Ognjen Barcot, Matija Boric, Tina Poklepovic Pericic, Marija Cavar, Svjetlana Dosenovic, Ivana Vuka, Livia Puljak

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Examining the claim that 80-90% of suicide cases had depression by Said eShahtahmasebi, Said eShahtahmasebi, Said eShahtahmasebi

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Community participation and sustainability &#x2013; evidence over 25 years in the V&#x00E4;sterbotten Intervention Programme by Margareta Norberg, Yulia Blomstedt, G&#x00F6;ran L&#x00F6;nnberg, Lennarth Nystr&#x00F6;m, Hans Stenlund, Stig Wall, Lars Weinehall

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Tree-Structured Model with Unbiased Variable Selection and Interaction Detection for Ranking Data by Yu-Shan Shih, Yi-Hung Kung

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The New Generation of Professional Soccer Talent Is Born under the Bias of the RAE: Relative Age Effect in International Male Youth Soccer Championships by Benito Pérez-González, Jairo León-Quismondo, José Bonal, Pablo Burillo, Álvaro Fernández-Luna

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Relative Age Influences Performance of World-Class Track and Field Athletes Even in the Adulthood by Paolo Riccardo Brustio, Philip Edward Kearney, Corrado Lupo, Alexandru Nicolae Ungureanu, Anna Mulasso, Alberto Rainoldi, Gennaro Boccia

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Randomization in randomized clinical trials: From theory to practice by Mina Mohammady, Leila Janani

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The dynamic model of partial adjustment of the capital structure: Meta-analysis and a case of Polish enterprises by Natalia Nehrebecka, Aneta Dzik-Walczak

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