ascertainment

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Ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows the ascertainment of dynamics over extremely short time scales, making it a very useful tool in many scientific and industrial applications.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Some produce symptoms that are consistently severe, whereas others are variable or mild, but because of ascertainment bias we do not know their true range of health and developmental effects.

From Scientific American • May 5, 2022

Real certificates of ascertainment all look slightly different because there's no standardized form.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2022

Chinese officials and some outside experts suspected that the initially high percentage of cases linked to the market might have been a statistical fluke known as ascertainment bias.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021

But yet these variations are capable of ascertainment as regards their extreme limits.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart