Nonresponse bias: Bias that occurs when selected individuals do not participate, and nonrespondents differ systematically from respondents.
How to apply it: Nonresponse is a problem when those who do not respond have different characteristics than those who do.
Course: AP Statistics · Unit: Collecting Data
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