verybody has a favorite color and season—preferences that seem innate, always defying reason. Auditors are no different when it comes to haphazard sampling, a process in which—ideally—they choose ...

Death Certificate Only registrations (DCOs), well known to cancer registries, are registrations for which the death certificate is the only evidence for a diagnosis of cancer. Such cases are a subset ...

When estimating a treatment effect from observational data, researchers encounter bias regardless of estimation methods. In this paper, we focus on a particular method of estimation called Balance ...

Every leader becomes a liar when they fall victim to selection bias (also called “survivor bias”). Survivor bias skews judgment. As a leader, your success—your selection as the leader, for example—can ...