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Selection bias
Known as:
Law of selection
, Observation selection bias
, Selection artefact
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Selection bias is the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring…
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2010
Review
2010
Selection Bias in Web Surveys
J. Bethlehem
2010
Corpus ID: 56390402
At first sight, web surveys seem to be an interesting and attractive means of data collection. They provide simple, cheap, and…
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation
G. Cawley
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N. L. C. Talbot
Journal of machine learning research
2010
Corpus ID: 1858029
Model selection strategies for machine learning algorithms typically involve the numerical optimisation of an appropriate model…
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Model selection bias and Freedman’s paradox
P. Lukacs
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K. Burnham
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David R. Anderson
2010
Corpus ID: 54726055
In situations where limited knowledge of a system exists and the ratio of data points to variables is small, variable selection…
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Sample Selection Bias Correction Theory
Corinna Cortes
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M. Mohri
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M. Riley
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Afshin Rostamizadeh
International Conference on Algorithmic Learning…
2008
Corpus ID: 842488
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of sample selection bias correction. The sample bias correction technique commonly…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Correcting Sample Selection Bias by Unlabeled Data
Jiayuan Huang
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Alex Smola
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A. Gretton
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K. Borgwardt
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B. Schölkopf
Neural Information Processing Systems
2006
Corpus ID: 70831
We consider the scenario where training and test data are drawn from different distributions, commonly referred to as sample…
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Review
2005
Review
2005
Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance
J. Stein
American Political Science Review
2005
Corpus ID: 40607090
Much recent research has found that states generally comply with the treaties they sign. The implications of this finding…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Learning and evaluating classifiers under sample selection bias
B. Zadrozny
International Conference on Machine Learning
2004
Corpus ID: 1314568
Classifier learning methods commonly assume that the training data consist of randomly drawn examples from the same distribution…
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Characterizing Selection Bias Using Experimental Data
J. Heckman
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Hidehiko Ichimura
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Jeffrey A. Smith
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Petra E. Todd
1998
Corpus ID: 15216040
This paper develops and applies semiparametric econometric methods to estimate the form of selection bias that arises from using…
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
VARIETIES OF SELECTION BIAS
H. James
1990
Corpus ID: 157561883
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Sample selection bias as a specification error
J. Heckman
1979
Corpus ID: 30028243
Sample selection bias as a specification error This paper discusses the bias that results from using non-randomly selected…
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