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Descriptor English: Selection Bias
Descriptor Spanish: Sesgo de Selección
Descriptor sesgo de selección
Entry term(s) sesgo de muestreo
Scope note: Introducción de error debido a diferencias sistemáticas en las características entre las seleccionadas y las no seleccionadas en relación con un estudio dado. En el sesgo de muestreo el error es el resultado de no poder asegurar que todos los miembros de la población de referencia tengan una probabilidad conocida de selección en la muestra.
Descriptor Portuguese: Viés de Seleção
Descriptor French: Biais de sélection
Entry term(s): Bias, Sampling
Bias, Selection
Biases, Sampling
Biases, Selection
Error, Sampling
Errors, Sampling
Sampling Bias
Sampling Biases
Sampling Error
Sampling Errors
Selection Biases
Tree number(s): N05.715.350.150.775
N06.850.490.500.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015983
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: usually NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Epidemiologic Methods (1966-1989)
Research Design (1972-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY) 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY) 1990
DeCS ID: 24872
Unique ID: D015983
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2017/07/12
Selection Bias - Preferred
Concept UI M0024427
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Selection Bias
Entry term(s) Bias, Selection
Biases, Selection
Selection Biases
Sampling Error - Narrower
Concept UI M0024426
Preferred term Sampling Error
Entry term(s) Error, Sampling
Errors, Sampling
Sampling Errors
Sampling Bias - Narrower
Concept UI M0024425
Preferred term Sampling Bias
Entry term(s) Bias, Sampling
Biases, Sampling
Sampling Biases



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