Commentary: On representativeness.

By Rothwell Rm, W. M, Elwin Ce, J. M. Elwood. 2013

71 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Marcus Munafò

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2. George Davey Smith
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Citations in the corpus

• Recruitment via the Internet and Social Networking Sites: The 1989-1995 Cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (2014, unknown): “However, representativeness is important if one of the goals of the study is to estimate the prevalence of disease or health status of population groups [11,13].”
• Collider scope: when selection bias can substantially influence observed associations (2016, background): “However, it is often argued that representativeness is not necessary in studies of this kind (5-9), although this is not universally accepted (10).”