LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --Most research looking at how and why people sample information focuses on "confirmation bias," the idea that people self-select information that confirms what they already ...

verybody has a favorite color and season—preferences that seem innate, always defying reason. Auditors are no different when it comes to haphazard sampling, a process in which—ideally—they choose ...

The way people make decisions often seems irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that they seek evidence that confirms what they already believe, a phenomenon called 'confirmation bias'. But ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 797-816 (20 pages) Biased sampling regression models were introduced by Jewell, generalizing the truncated regression model studied by ...

In a regression model, the joint distribution for each finite sample of units is determined by a function $p_{{\bf x}}({\bf y})$ depending only on the list of ...