Selection bias
Distortion caused by which sites, prompts, pages, or users enter analysis.
What Selection bias does not show
Opt-in datasets especially should not be described as the whole web.
Related terms in Measurement and evaluation
How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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Questions about Selection bias
What is Selection bias?
Distortion caused by which sites, prompts, pages, or users enter analysis.
What does Selection bias not show or guarantee?
Opt-in datasets especially should not be described as the whole web.
Which area of the glossary does Selection bias belong to?
Measurement and evaluation: How a measurement earns trust: evaluation sets, error rates, calibration, reproducibility, and the biases that make a number look better than it is.
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