selection bias

Preferred Label : selection bias;

MeSH definition : The introduction of error due to systematic differences in the characteristics between those selected and those not selected for a given study. In sampling bias, error is the result of failure to ensure that all members of the reference population have a known chance of selection in the sample.;

MeSH synonym : biases, selection; selection biases; bias, selection;

MeSH hyponym : sampling bias; sampling error; Error, Sampling; Errors, Sampling; Sampling Errors; Bias, Sampling; Sampling Biases; Biases, Sampling;

MeSH annotation : IM GEN only; coord NIM with disease /epidemiol (IM) or specific non-disease term /statist; no qualif; specify geog if pertinent; usually NIM;

Details

Origin ID

D015983;

UMLS CUI

C0036577;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- sample error [IUPAC Term]
- sampling error [IUPAC Term]
Record concept(s)
- sampling bias [MeSH concept]
- sampling error [MeSH concept]
- selection bias [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Quantitative Concept [UMLS semantic type]

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