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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2022 Jun 6;33(5):699–706. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000001516

Table:

Summary of type 1 and type 2 selection bias

Selection bias Type 1 Type 2
Definition Restricting to one or more level(s) of a collider (or a descendant of a collider) Restricting to one or more level(s) of an effect measure modifier
Other names Collider stratification bias; collider restriction bias generalizability bias
Can occur on sharp null? Yes No
Bias in the referent population? Yes Yes
Bias in the selected sample? Yes No
Can affect internal validity? Yes Yes
Can affect external validity? No Yes
Effect measure scale dependent? No Yes