Learn how representative samples and random samples differ and why combining them minimizes sampling bias for accurate data.
Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...
verybody has a favorite color and season—preferences that seem innate, always defying reason. Auditors are no different when it comes to haphazard sampling, a process in which—ideally—they choose ...
LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --Most research looking at how and why people sample information focuses on "confirmation bias," the idea that people self-select information that confirms what they already ...
The way people make decisions often seems irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that they seek evidence that confirms what they already believe, a phenomenon called 'confirmation bias'. But ...
When estimating a treatment effect from observational data, researchers encounter bias regardless of estimation methods. In this paper, we focus on a particular method of estimation called Balance ...
The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 797-816 (20 pages) Biased sampling regression models were introduced by Jewell, generalizing the truncated regression model studied by ...
Sampling is one of the most important aspects of particle size analysis. If a biased sample is analyzed, a biased particle size distribution will be recorded. The requirement for good sampling not ...