Survivorship
A related bias: the material that reaches a laboratory is not representative of material that does not. Compounded here by who chooses to submit and when.
Related terms
- Selection bias
- Distortion arising because the sample was not drawn at random. The index's largest unmeasured confounder: lots that get tested are lots someone chose to test.
see also Survivorship
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 21 glossary terms beginning with S