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Bias is an inclination toward something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection.

Bias may also refer to:

Scientific method and statistics

  • The bias introduced into an experiment through a confounder
  • Algorithmic bias, machine learning algorithms that exhibit politically unacceptable behavior
  • Cultural bias, interpreting and judging phenomena in terms particular to one's own culture
  • Funding bias, bias relative to the commercial interests of a study's financial sponsor
  • Infrastructure bias, the influence of existing social or scientific infrastructure on scientific observations
  • Publication bias, bias toward publication of certain experimental results
  • Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic
    • Biased sample, a sample falsely taken to be typical of a population
    • Estimator bias, a bias from an estimator whose expectation differs from the true value of the parameter
  • Personal equation, a concept in 19th- and early 20th-century science that each observer had an inherent bias when it came to measurements and observations
  • Reporting bias, a bias resulting from what is and is not reported in research, either by participants in the research or by the researcher.

Cognitive science

Mathematics and engineering

  • Exponent bias, the constant offset of an exponent's value
  • Inductive bias, the set of assumptions that a machine learner uses to predict outputs of given inputs that it has not encountered.
  • Weight and bias, two terms used to describe parameters in a neural network.
  • Seat bias, any bias in a method of apportionment that favors either large or small parties over the other

Electricity

  • Biasing, a voltage or current added to an electronic device to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function
  • Grid bias of a vacuum tube, used to control the electron flow from the heated cathode to the positively charged anode
  • Tape bias (also AC bias), a high-frequency signal (generally from 40 to 150 kHz) added to the audio signal recorded on an analog tape recorder

Places

People

Organisations

In other areas

  • Bias (book), a book by journalist Bernard Goldberg
  • Bias (bird), the genus of the black-and-white shrike-flycatcher
  • Bias (textile) of a woven fabric, the 45-degree diagonal line along which it is most stretchable
  • Bias frame, an image obtained from an opto-electronic image sensor, with no actual exposure time
  • Bias ratio (finance), an indicator used in finance to analyze the returns of investment portfolios, and in performing due diligence
  • Media bias, the influence journalists and news producers have in selecting stories to report and how they are covered

See also


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