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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"bias assessment"”.
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Bias Assessment and Reduction in Kernel Smoothing
… evaluated using the Mean Square Error (MSE). Bias and variance are two components of MSE. Kernel methods are known to exhibit varying degrees of bias. Boundary effects and data sparsity issues are two potential problems to watch for. There is a need for a tool to visually assess the potential …
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Psychosocial factors associated with self-management and well-being in childhood chronic illness
… were identified for the review. A risk of bias assessment was completed for each study. Consistencies and differences between papers were identified. Overall, treatment control beliefs were most consistently associated with self-management across a range of chronic health conditions. The …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
<p>Cognitive biases have long been studied for their effects on an individual's decision-making. This study is the first of its kind to link these preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students …
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Recurrent Event Data Analysis with Mismeasured Covariates
… for the covariates. To circumvent the problem of bias and consistency associated with model's parameter estimation in the presence of measurement errors, we propose inference for corrected estimating functions with well-behaved roots under additive measurement errors model. We consider two types …
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The effect of patient warming on perioperative cardiovascular outcomes in interventional clinical trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis
… outcomes. Screening, data extraction and risk of bias assessment were conducted in duplicate. 8782 records were identified. After removing duplicates and screening titles and abstracts, fifty-two full-text articles were assessed for eligibility, fourteen studies with 1711 participants were …
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The Effect and Potential of Digital Health in The Cycle of Care in Tuberculosis Patients from Low and Middle-income Countries
… in English before 30 November 2020. The risk of bias was independently assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool. Results Out of the 1030 articles identified through the databases, 41 articles were full text screened and eleven included in the synthesis of this review. Seven …
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Replication, bias, and meta-research in animal cognition research
… results and the presence of theoretical biases across research programmes. To do so I apply and develop arguments borne in human psychology’s “replication crisis” to animal cognition research and assess a range of secondary data analysis methods to detect bias across heterogeneous …
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Educators' Perceptions of Career and Technical Education and Its Effects on Students
… involved collecting the data through an anti-bias assessment, questionnaire, and interviews to explore the CTE educators' lived experiences. The researcher chose five educators with expertise, training, and background in career and technical education. A questionnaire developed by the …
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School Vision Screening Programs In Reducingchildren With Uncorrected Refractive Error In Low And Middle-income Countries (Lmic)(Systematic Review)
… inclusion criteria. Data extraction and risk of bias assessment for the included studies was performed by the two independent reviewers and discrepancies were resolved by consensus and through consultation. The certainty of the evidence was assessed using the GRADE approach. Main Result: We found …
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The effect of stimulus threat on experimentally induced secondary hyperalgesia
… in English. Duplicate screening, risk of bias assessment, and data extraction procedures were used. Risk of bias was appraised for the following domains: selection, performance, detection, attrition, measurement, reporting, and other sources of bias. Data were extracted using a …