failure family
sample and selection bias
- single-case-regulation: Post-1998 hedge fund regulatory proposals were misdirected because LTCM was unique among its peers in leverage, position size, and market-making abili
- industry-opacity-limits-sample-size: The hedge fund industry's concern with confidentiality and privacy is itself an obstacle to empirical research: it made obtaining a substantial effect
- selection-bias-corrections-backfire: The standard remedies for selection bias are not reliably corrective: simulation studies show that many techniques used to prevent selection bias prob
- regulatory-avoiders-unobservable: Managers who avoided registration by restructuring, for example by changing organizational form or assets under management, are practically and admini
- sample-size-does-not-fix-bias: Enlarging the sample does not cure selection bias in non-statistical sampling: a bigger sample neither compensates for the bias of non-statistical tec
- executed-agreement-selection-bias: The governance trends reported in this study apply only to corporations that actually executed an agreement, so because a disproportionately large num
- selection bias from small survey samples: Selection bias is a valid concern in this study because of the lower sample sizes available for Models 1 through 5.
- small sample limitation: The findings of this study are based on limited data and a small sample size, so additional research is required to fully investigate the impact of Ti
- survivorship-bias-excludes-highest-impact-ndpas: The study's results may be biased toward low impact N/DPAs, because firms that were acquired, merged, or went bankrupt as a result of an N/DPA had to
- small-sample-limitation: The findings rest on a small sample and limited data, so they should be treated as provisional pending replication on a larger set of publicly traded
- Private fund survey nonresponse: Survey research on private fund advisers is structurally constrained because these advisers traditionally oppose publicity and hold a strong preferenc
- Confidentiality driven nonresponse: Because private fund advisers prefer confidentiality and generally oppose publicity, most do not respond to survey questions, which makes obtaining a
- public-information-bias: The absence of Luxembourg funds from the dataset is most likely an artifact of unavailable public information rather than evidence that Luxembourg fun
- incomplete-response-data: The dataset is incomplete by construction: the 120 fund advisers sampled did not answer all questions and the authors were often unable to obtain info
- false-inference-from-live-experiments: Successful proof of stake experiments running today cannot be used to infer that their protocols are truly secure, because the current participant pop
- publication selection bias: Journal publication incentives systematically bias the scientific record: journals prefer papers that reject the null hypothesis, use big datasets, an
- Cognitive bias in screening: A drawback of the traditional VC evaluation process is that perceptual, emotional, and cognitive processes affect the investment decision alongside fi