Selection bias and the Healthy Worker Effect
A comprehensive review of the healthy worker effect in occupational epidemiological studies
... a selection, information or confounding bias? There is no consensus among investigators regarding the answer for this ...First, healthy workers are usually more likely to stay in the workforce more ...
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International Trade and Unemployment - the Worker-Selection Effect
... The same holds true, if the ability of the union’s median member does not matter for his or her fallback income (! = 0). We are now in a position to discuss the impact of an increase in the unions’ bargaining power on ...
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The effect of selection bias in studies of fads and fashions
... negative effect of the change in popularity? One possibility is that people want to avoid objects that are evaluated as fashionable and increases in popularity is used as an indication of ...tive effect is ...
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The effect of connectives on the selection of arguments: Implicit consequentiality bias for the connective "but"
... Finally, we evaluated the hypothesis formulated by Crinean and Garnham (2006) about the specific status of the NP1 for action verbs with an NP2 bias. We conducted a third paper and pencil study. Participants were ...
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Reproductive Selection Bias
... A negative right becomes a positive right to funding for ARTs where poor children will otherwise suffer illness and social stigma that is preventable before birth. Section II explores how existing jurisprudence ignores ...
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Genetic association studies and the effect of misclassification and selection bias in putative confounders
... and selection bias are rarely ...the effect of confounder misclassification and selection bias in a case-control study of incident myocardial ...alter effect estimates, even when ...
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The effect of simulation bias on action selection in Monte Carlo Tree Search
... the selection phase of the algorithm, which provides theoretical convergence guarantees and upper-bounds on the regret [Kocsis and Szepesvári 2006; Coquelin and Munos ...major effect on the overall strength ...
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Selection Bias in Epidemiological Studies
... Women on HRT in observational studies were more health conscious, thinner, and more physically active, and they had a higher socioeconomic status and better access to health care than women who are not on HRT ...
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The Healthy Immigrant Effect and Immigrant Selection: Evidence from Four Countries
... The third theory is based on the notion of immigrant self-selection: the positive health gap between recent immigrants to a country and the native-born residents of that country arises from the fact that ...
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Credit scoring and the sample selection bias
... to selection-based bias and to inferior classification results for the next scoring ...sample selection will be analyzed in the context of influencing ...
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The Importance of Selection Bias in Internet Surveys
... in selection bias in internet ...about selection bias issues and to give a review in internet ...the effect of various correction techniques for reducing selection ...
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Selection Bias and Outcomes for Preterm Neonates
... In several other studies, authors suggest that active perinatal management in extreme prematurity is the main determinant of survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes, rather than admission of infants with the most ...
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Selection Problems in the Presence of Implicit Bias
... explicit) bias is preventing deserving candidates from underrepresented groups from being fairly considered, and the Rooney Rule is providing a force that counter-balances and partially offsets the consequences of ...
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Selection Bias: A Machine Learning Approach
... These complications are well accounted for with sample selection models (Cameron and Trivedi, 2005). Therefore this dataset is a good way to test the new methods and compare their inference and accuracy with the ...
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Stabilizing Selection, Purifying Selection, and Mutational Bias in Finite Populations
... 2010). Stochastic simulations of a set of m freely recombining sites were carried out using a similar model. In this case, however, a single population was followed to provide a rep- licate run. Each generation, ...
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Addressing unobserved selection bias in accounting studies: the bias minimization method
... 1.1. PSM and Regression Adjustment To inform the following exposition of the MBE, this section briefly describes the method of PSM (Rosenbaum & Rubin, 1983), that is regularly used in accounting studies (Tucker, ...
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Essays on Worker Self Selection and Wage Inequality
... marginal selection by the sources of workers’ ...marginal selection that is due to different skill endowments is substantial, ranging from one fifth in Mgr-Prof- Tech and Sales-Office to two thirds in ...
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Selection Bias in News Coverage: Learning it, Fighting it
... [2] Carlos de Juan Carbonell and Jade Goldstein-Stewart. 1998. The Use of MMR, Diversity-Based Reranking for Reordering Documents and Producing Summaries. SIGIR Forum 51 (1998), 209–210. [3] Stefano DellaVigna, Ethan ...
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Selection bias and generalisation error in genetic programming
... of selection pressure and an individual’s probability of being ...an effect on sampling probability such that larger tour- naments result in higher sampling probability and conversely lower probability of ...
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How to Test and Detect Selection Bias in Innovation
... the effect of competition on innovation is observed with international, high-value patents but not with total ...a selection bias, and not limited to a single patent ...
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