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Figure 1 shows that individual measurement values hover around a mean value and the difference between the mean value and true value is the systematic error of ...

This paper examines the effects of systematic and random errors in recall and of selection bias in case–control studies of mobile phone use and cancer. These sensitivity analyses are based on ...