Bias — This article is about different ways the term bias is used . For other uses, see Bias (disambiguation). Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives. Bias can come in many … Wikipedia
No abstract available bias — No abstract available bias, or NAA bias, refers to failures in academic research and academic publishing, whereby researchers will often ignore articles that could have a high degree of relevance, if they do not have an abstract available. This… … Wikipedia
NAA bias — stands for No Abstract Available bias and refers to failures in academic research and academic publishing. Without a full abstract, researchers will often ignore articles that could have a high degree of relevance. This problem is amplified by… … Wikipedia
Confirmation bias — (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.[Note 1][1] As a result, people gather evidence and recall … Wikipedia
Selection bias — is a statistical bias in which there is an error in choosing the individuals or groups to take part in a scientific study.[1] It is sometimes referred to as the selection effect. The term selection bias most often refers to the distortion of a… … Wikipedia
Experimenter's bias — In experimental science, experimenter s bias is subjective bias towards a result expected by the human experimenter. David Sackett,[1] in a useful review of biases in clinical studies, states that biases can occur in any one of seven stages of… … Wikipedia
Sampling bias — In statistics, sampling bias is when a sample is collected in such a way that some members of the intended population are less likely to be included than others. It results in a biased sample, a non random sample[1] of a population (or non human… … Wikipedia
Cognitive bias — For an article about the conceptual problems of the mind see Cognitive closure (philosophy). Psychology … Wikipedia
Publication bias — is the tendency of researchers, editors, and pharmaceutical companies to handle the reporting of experimental results that are positive (i.e. showing a significant finding) differently from results that are negative (i.e. supporting the null… … Wikipedia
Omitted-variable bias — In statistics, omitted variable bias (OVB) occurs when a model is created which incorrectly leaves out one or more important causal factors. The bias is created when the model compensates for the missing factor by over or under estimating one of… … Wikipedia
