Sampling biases and implications for child abuse research.
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 58 (2) , 260-270
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1988.tb01587.x
Abstract
The influence of sampling decisions on outcome in research on child abuse is examined. The extent to which the literature on child abuse reflects the problems of criterion-dependent biases and method-dependent biases is discussed and recommendations are made for minimizing sampling biases.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Justice (86-IJ-CX-0033)
- Indiana Universiry (SO7 RR07031)
- Talley Foundation
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