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