| selection |
choice: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes" choice: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" survival: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment excerpt: a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
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| selection coefficient |
a measure of the disadvantage in survival value of a given genotype as compared with that of a standard genotype in a population.
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| selection bias |
Selection bias is the error of distorting a statistical analysis by pre- or post-selecting the samples. Typically this causes measures of statistical significance to appear much stronger than they are, but it is also possible to cause completely illusory artifacts. Selection bias can be the result of scientific fraud which manipulate data directly, but more often is either unconscious or due to biases in the instruments used for observation. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
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| selection |
In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of a species may be subject to selection. Under selection, individuals with advantageous or "adaptive" traits tend to be more successful than their peers reproductively--meaning they contribute more offspring to the succeeding generation than others do. Selection therefore increases the prevalence of these traits, because offspring inherit traits from their parents. ...
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| selection bias |
An error in choosing the individuals or groups to take part in a study. Ideally, the subjects in a study should be very similar to one another and to the larger population from which they are drawn (for example, all individuals with the same disease or condition). If there are important differences, the results of the study may not be valid.
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