Example sentences for: length-bias

How can you use “length-bias” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Continuing with the analogy, suppose there is only one type of bus (so there is no length-bias or overdiagnosis bias), but you only board it at stop B in the morning when the traffic is heaviest.

  • Length-bias and overdiagnosis bias are avoided because the comparison is between randomized groups not between screen-detected and clinically detected cancer cases.

  • The use of a mortality endpoint also avoids lead-time bias, length-bias, and overdiagnosis bias that would arise with an endpoint based on characteristics of the cancer.

  • Screening preferentially detects slower growing cancers because there is a longer period of time (hence the name length-bias) when such cancers could be found on screening.

  • If slower growing cancers have a different prognosis than faster growing cancers, the estimated survival time after diagnosis will be subject to length-bias.


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