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==Index and Glossary==
There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles [[Economics/Related Articles|here]], and a glossary of economic terms [[Economics/Glossary|here]].


See also the  [[Politics/Index|'''index to the politics articles ''']].


Financial analysts have been known to use "survivor bias" to  mislead potential clients by the use of statistics that demonstrate the benefits they would have enjoyed had they previously invested in their currently recommended portfolio - thus drawing attention away from previous recommendations that had been withdrawn because they had done badly. Another example of survivor bias in the interpretation of financial statistics  was  study of financial returns  which covered only firms existing at the end of the period under review, thereby excluding those that had failed in the interim, that showed shares to have earned a return of 8.8 percent when the true return had been3.8 per cent<ref>  Dimson, Marsh and Staunton: ''The Millenium Book: a Century of Investment Returns'', ABN Amro, 2000</ref>.
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|"''The European Union is something ...
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights.''"


 
:Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating  President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
Survivor bias has also marred studies of medical treatment that have used samples in which patients who died early were under-represented<ref>[http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/125/11/941-a Marshall J. Glesby, and Donald R. Hoover: ''Bias in Observational Studies of Treatment'', Annals of Internal Medicine, 1 December 1996 | Volume 125 Issue 11 | Page 941]</ref>.
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Index and Glossary

There is an index to the topics dealt with in the economics articles here, and a glossary of economic terms here.

See also the index to the politics articles .

methodology

"The European Union is something ... 
very precious, not only for us in Europe, but also for the rest of the world. Because the European Union is, in fact, the result of a project for peace that brought together nations emerging from the ruins of the Second World War. It was the European Union that united them in peace around the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, justice, rule of law and respect for human rights."
Merci Olsson, of Nobel Med, congratulating President Barroso on the award of The Nobel Peace Prize t the European Union, 12 October 2012.
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