publication bias

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publication bias (plural publication biases)

  1. The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.
    • 2011, Jacques Pepin, “Out of Africa”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 10:
      Studies with negative results tend not to be published in scientific journals, a phenomenon known as "publication bias".

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