Quality and bias assessment
Bias Assessment and Reduction in Kernel Smoothing
... 72 C hapter 4. D ouble - smoothing for both steps of the double-smoothing algorithm. This reduces the dimensionality of the band- width selection but, as we will later see, this also reduces the quality of the ...
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Racial Bias in Expert Quality Assessment: A Study of Newspaper Movie Reviews
... other quality dimensions not captured by our measures of ...lower quality) Bw movies in the box office; results from regression (4) do not support ...higher quality, i.e. that only the lower ...
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Assessment of risk of bias in translational science
... of bias in translational medicine may take one of three forms: ...selection bias), ...information bias), and ...inferential bias). Risk of bias can seriously adulterate the internal and ...
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Challenges and opportunities in using administrative data linkage for research: the importance of quality assessment for understanding bias
... Utilising identifier error variation in linkage of large administrative data sources.. Impact of false links[r] ...
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Failure of a numerical quality assessment scale to identify potential risk of bias in a systematic review: a comparison study
... of bias, firstly within the individual studies, but also in the context of the available body of evidence under ...as quality of evidence can vary across outcomes reported in the same study, and some ...
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Quality of life in dementia: a study on proxy bias
... Proxy assessment is an important aspect of the evalu- ation of people with dementia, yet a bias is ...patient-by-proxy assessment perspectives might be com- plementary instead of being regarded ...
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Assessment of bias-adjusted PM 25 air quality forecasts over the continental United States during 2007
... a transitional period from underestimation to overestimation. From early September until the end of the year, the overesti- mation of the raw model became larger. This is partially at- tributed to the change of the PBL ...
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Peer assessment in an EFL context: attitudes and friendship bias
... the assessment program, this procedure led to the identification of the friend and non-friend peers who had to mark other students' compositions in the following ...
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Metrics for Estimating Validity, Reliability and Bias in Peer Assessment
... Peer assessment is a widespread way of evaluating and rating the quality of a work in the field of ...or bias are global, that is, they give a measure of these values for the whole process, but they ...
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Predictors of rater bias in the assessment of social-emotional competence
... sound assessment tools that allow us to observe the impact of the intervention on the growth of protective factors (Naglieri, LeBuffe, & Shapiro, ...initial assessment can help teachers and student ...
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Epistemological and ethical assessment of obesity bias in industrialized countries
... for Disease Control and Prevention point out as a way to prevent and control obesity among children [47,61]. In addition to access, overarching strategies to improve these behavioral targets include pricing, media, ...
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Bias and Inefficiency in Quality-Adjusted Hedonic Regression Analysis
... precise assessment presents a tricky ...that quality-adjusted price measurement techniques are a prerequisite when attempting to accurately evaluate the long-term price trends of such ...
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The impact of topic bias on quality flaw prediction in Wikipedia
... automatic quality assessment has become a key chal- ...training quality assessment ...pling bias that results in a skewed classifier and overly optimistic evaluation ...topic ...
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Recommendations for a uniform assessment of publication bias related to funding source
... industry-sponsored studies relates to the overall responsi- bility for the conduct of the trial as defined by ICH-GCP guidelines. Industry-supported trials are done under the responsibility of non-profit organizations in ...
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Assessment of Risk of Bias Among Pediatric Randomized Controlled Trials
... or quality of ...porting quality, rather than the inter- nal validity of a given ...of bias among RCTs, it is important to distinguish simple re- porting of procedures from the actual design and ...
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Recommendations by Cochrane Review Groups for assessment of the risk of bias in studies
... authors. This can be problematic if the guidelines are not in accordance with the empirical research on bias. The Jadad scale is the only scale that has been developed using established standards for scales and ...
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An assessment of sex bias in neurodevelopmental disorders
... These results suggest that the sex difference in CNV bur- den dissolves when applied to severely affected subsets. Finally, the existence of positive family histories among individuals ascertained for neurodevelopmental ...
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The Open Access Citation Advantage: Quality Advantage Or Quality Bias?
... The mandates are still very young and few, hence the sample is still small; and there are many potential artifacts, including selective noncompliance with the mandate as well as disciplinary bias. But the ...
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Assessment of Hostile Attribution Bias in Early Childhood
... attribution bias are generally more rejected by ...attribution bias and those who did ...attribution bias, children who did do so were perceived by teachers as more extraverted and by parents as ...
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Cognitive bias in forensic anthropology: Visual assessment of skeletal remains is susceptible to confirmation bias
... the assessment of the skeletal remains, two of the groups were given different extraneous contextual information regarding the sex, ancestry and age at death of the ...confirmation bias in the ...
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