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Systematic distortion when some population members are more likely than others to enter the sample.
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Use when explaining why sample composition may distort an estimate.Describe a sample whose selection process systematically misses or overrepresents people.
Words that belong together
- sampling bias
- biased sample
- sampling frame
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The online poll had sampling bias because offline residents could not respond.
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Sampling bias comes from the selection process and is not the same as ordinary random sampling error.
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