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A cutoff that is conservative for determination of divergent genes inappropriately overestimates the number of present genes, and vice versa.
Bias The extent to which a measurement, sampling, or analytic method systematically underestimates or overestimates the true value of an attribute.
Most physicians overestimated the 5-year risk of CHD: for all scenarios combined, 66% of responses were overestimates, defined as 1.5 times greater than the actual value.
A single function applied everywhere may result in overestimates of incidence changes in some locations and underestimates elsewhere, but these location-specific biases will negate each other, to some extent, when the total incidence change is calculated.
Similarly to unidirectional similarity estimation, d, the bi-directional estimate, D, being the sum of two overestimates, is also overestimated by a quantity to be defined, φ (Eq.