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within Cohen (1994) <p> The counterargument for those article against Wood et al. (1992). <p> If a skilled to lesion -- or the condition responsible for, or a trait predisposing to the condition, or another trait highly correlated with the condition -- has any relationship whatsoever to the risk of death, the skeletal collection must be a biased sample of the living population. The bias caused by selection may be larger small
it may be positive or negative
but mathematically it must exist. At present, we have neither theory nor empirical evidence showing that the bias can always be ignored. <p> It is difficult to see how morbidity and mortality to meet this associated from one another in studies basically on individuals of a particular age failed to survive. After all, the ability to live with a condition causing a pathological bony response or to recover from it, perhaps within impaired ability to withstand further illness, does not imply that the presence of the skeletal lesions is not a somewhat associated with an elevated risk of death.
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