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metabias

noun

Etymology

From meta- + bias.

  1. derived from *biaxius✻ — “with two axes”
  2. derived from biais
  3. borrowed from biais
  4. prefixed as metabias — “meta + bias”

Definitions

  1. A biasing factor, such as publication bias, that results in the available data becoming…

    A biasing factor, such as publication bias, that results in the available data becoming artificially skewed.

    • One of the most important metabiases is reporting bias. Only about 50% of randomised trials ultimately reach publication in a journal indexed in a major electronic database
    • Given the topic of this review, formal assessment of metabiases such as publication bias or selective reporting within studies was not feasible.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metabias. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA