Futurism

Sampling Bias in Science: Here’s Why You Need to Go Back to the Source

Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...
JSTOR Daily

Mapping large-scale bird distributions using occupancy models and citizen data with spatially biased sampling effort

Aim Although data collected by citizen scientists have received a great deal of attention for assessing species distributions over large extents, their sampling efforts are usually spatially biased.
Harvard Business School

Provable Detection of Propagating Sampling Bias in Prediction Models

Ravishankar, Pavan, Qingyu Mo, Edward McFowland III, and Daniel B. Neill. "Provable Detection of Propagating Sampling Bias in Prediction Models." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial ...
JSTOR Daily

Covariate Bias Induced by Length-Biased Sampling of Failure Times

Although many authors have proposed different approaches to the analysis of length-biased survival data, a number of issues have not been fully addressed. The most important among these issues is ...
insideHPC

4 Sources of Machine Learning Bias & How to Mitigate the Impact on AI Systems

This guest post from Alegion explores the reality of machine learning bias and how to mitigate its impact on AI systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t perfect. It exists as a combination of ...