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Editorial
. 2022 Mar 15;11(6):e023234.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.023234. Epub 2021 Oct 11.

Important Questions Deserve Rigorous Analysis: A Cautionary Note About Selection Bias

Lucia C Petito  1 , Louisa H Smith  2
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Editorial

Important Questions Deserve Rigorous Analysis: A Cautionary Note About Selection Bias

Lucia C Petito et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; cardiovascular research; missing data; selection bias.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Estimated ratio of number of female to male first author publications under varying assumptions of what percentage of publications with unknown sex are truly written by female first authors.
The dashed line indicates the observed ratio in the nonmissing data presented in Millenaar et al.
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Comment on

  • Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Research: A Scientometric Analysis.
    Millenaar D, Dillmann M, Fehlmann T, Flohr A, Mehran R, Al-Lamee R, Lauder L, Ukena C, Böhm M, Keller A, Mahfoud F. Millenaar D, et al. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Mar 15;11(6):e021522. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.021522. Epub 2021 Oct 11. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022. PMID: 34632817 Free PMC article.

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