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Social & Preventive Medicine Analytical Epidemiology 69ad07e0

Berkesonian bias is a type of ?

A
Selection bias
B
Interviever bias
C
Information bias
D
Recell bias
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. is 'a' i.e., Selection bias Berksonian bias is a type of selection bias.Biaso It is any systemic error in the analysis of study that results in a mistaken estimate of an exposure's effect on the risk of disease.o Mainly biases are of following types.1. Selection bias# Surveillance/detection bias# Referrel bias or volunteer bias# Berksonian bias# Neyman survival bias# Response bias 2. Information (Misclassification) bias# Reporting bias# Interviewer bias# Recall bias# Hawthorne bias (attention bias)3. Confounding bias# Confounding is some times is referred to as a third major class of bias.

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