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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Selection Bias
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Selection Bias
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Selection Bias
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Selection Bias
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Selection Bias

Preferred term

Selection Bias  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

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.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Bias, Selection
  • Selection Biases

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