(1) Such a decrease significantly biased survival (p = 0.001).
(2) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(3) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(4) In addition, despite the fact that the differences constitutes an information bias, the bias occurs in the same direction and magnitude in all the various subgroups and thus is nondifferential.
(5) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(6) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
(7) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(8) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
(9) The greater use of health services for female children probably accounts for the female-biased sex ratio among the Mukogodo.
(10) The possibility that selective bias or unmeasured environmental differences might explain the difference in BP between the two groups is discussed.
(11) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(12) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
(13) This suggests that monitoring heart rate during limited portions of the day will provide a biased estimate of overall heart rate.
(14) Analogous biases and solutions apply to other sampling problems in health services research.
(15) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
(16) A model was investigated which simulated choices one may have between disease classification tests, to determine how the required sample size and bias in the estimates of the risk ratio and risk difference varied between tests.
(17) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(18) We confirm that sera from patients on intravenous therapy with lidocaine exhibit a positive bias in results for creatinine but that lidocaine itself does not interfere.
(19) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(20) (4) R(XY)(t,tau) is a biased estimator of the shape of h(t), generally over-estimating both its time to peak and its rise time.
Partisanship
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(2) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, seized on Abbott’s comments on Sunday, saying the Turnbull government should now support a Senate inquiry into the detention of people in Nauru, after allegations of abuse and self-harm in incident reports leaked to Guardian Australia last week.
(3) Clegg’s team is as irritated by aggressive partisanship in the Conservative press as Miliband’s is, although no more surprised by it.
(4) Ethnic minorities in Britain share roughly similar levels of partisanship – identification with a political party – to the white population.
(5) While it is "an honour to be asked" to moderate the debate, Schieffer lamented the partisanship in American politics in an interview with Florida's Palm Beach Post over the weekend.
(6) A quest for the full truth, rather than knee-jerk partisanship, must be our guide if we are going to rebuild civic trust and health.” Rubio could not provide a deadline for the investigation.
(7) Their opposition to change wasn't based on principle or belief, but sheer partisanship and narrow party interest."
(8) It would have been a step back from the hyper-partisanship that now poisons our public life.” Menadue said the defeat of the Malaysia transfer arrangement had been “a tragedy, because that has given us Nauru and Manus Island”.
(9) Of course you must avoid political partisanship, but that should not stop you speaking out on matters affecting the public service profession, and they are many and wide.
(10) "The American people deserve to know what actions will be taken to ensure those who made these policy decisions at the IRS are being held fully accountable and more importantly what is being done to ensure that this kind of raw partisanship is fully eliminated from these critically important non-partisan government functions," they said.
(11) The domestic partisanship was only a brief foray in the speech, but the prime minister in essence blamed Labor for undoing the good work of the Howard government in returning the commonwealth budget to surplus.
(12) Partisanship and "yes men" are not a healthy way to run a department, let alone influence the values and methods that are remodelling teaching and fashioning our children's futures.
(13) Yet Price’s voting history places partisanship above patient wellbeing.
(14) For a host of reasons, ranging from haste to blinkered partisanship, all newspapers get things wrong (including the Guardian) and edit selectively.
(15) But a crucial shift is surely the trend towards deeper and more bitter partisanship.
(16) Partisanship, therefore, cannot be said to have played a part in its disastrous implementation .
(17) News channels feed partisanship and the echochamber This is particularly true in the US – where TV is unregulated - and a consequence of the undeniable success of Fox News.
(18) He added: "For decades, Republicans and Democrats put partisanship and ideology aside to offer some security for job-seekers, even when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today.
(19) And yet in a reborn two-party system, raucous partisanship is mostly what we would get.
(20) At the recent election, several of the micro-parties elected to the Senate represent extreme right-wing ideals, stirred up by hyper-partisanship – most notably, Abbott's call for a "people's revolt" against the carbon tax.