Look up: Bias

1. Bias
   Bias was one of the seven sages of Greece. He was born at Priene and lived around 570 BC. He gained repute as a political and legal adviser and has many sayings of practical wisdom attributed to him.
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2. Bias
   The Bias is a large river in the Punjab, India. It rises in the Himalayas and flows west and then south 4800 km to the Sutlej.
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3. Bias
   See threshold.
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4. Bias
   1. Bias of technology, either change or difference, refers to a shift towards or away from use of a factor. The exact meaning depends on the definition of neutral used to define absence of bias. Factor bias matters for the effects of technological progress on trade and welfare. 2. Bias of a trade regime refers to whether the structure of protection favors importables or exportables, based on comparing their effective rates of protection. If these are equal, the trade regime is said to be neutral…
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5. Bias
   Bias is a term which refers to how far the average statistic lies from the parameter it is estimating, that is, the error which arises when estimating a quantity. Errors from chance will cancel each other out in the long run, those from bias will not.
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6. Bias
   Current or voltage applied to a circuit to set a reference operating level for proper circuit performance, such as the high frequency bias current applied to an audio recording head to improve linear performance and reduce distortion.
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7. Bias
   Generally a preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment. In statistical sampling or testing, an error caused by systematically favouring some outcomes over others.
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8. bias
   [adj] - slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric 2. [n] - a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation 3. [v] - influence in an unfair way 4. [v] - cause to be biased
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9. Bias
   Bias is a consistent error brought about by experimental design favouring one group over another or by the investigator/data recorder favouring one group over another. In the first case it can be prevented by matching the groups, and in the second case by blinding. See also blind study.
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10. BIAS
    High frequency signal used in analogue recording to improve the accuracy of the recorded signal and to drive the erase head. Bias is generated by a bias oscillator.
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11. Bias
    A tendency to misrepresent. The term bias is used in statistics to refer to how far the average statistic lies from the parameter it is estimating, that is, the error that arises when estimating a quantity. Errors from chance will cancel each other out in the long run, those from bias will not.
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12. Bias
    AudioUsed in recording signals on a magnetic media (tape). As the tape passes the recording head, the head generates a varying magnetic field corresponding to the analogue signal to be recorded. The problem is that if the magnetising force is in the form of a sine wave, (with excursions either side from zero), the resulting flux is non linear due t…
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13. Bias
    The difference between the mean value of a set of test results or measurement results and the true value.
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14. Bias
    To prefer one thing to another and so look at it more favourably. It is possible to do this without knowing it, which is why some trials are designed so that no one knows which patient is having which treatment.
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15. Bias
    Any influence that distorts the results of a research study
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16. Bias
    A realist approach to bias depicts this as consisting of any systematic error that obscures correct conclusions about the subject being studied. Typically, such bias may be caused by the researcher, or by procedures adopted for data gathering, including sampling. The concept makes little sense from a relativist standpoint, though provision of a ref …
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17. Bias
    Bias: 1. When a point of view prevents impartial judgment on issues relating to the subject of that point of view. In a clinical trial, bias refers to effects that a conclusion that may be incorrect as, for example, when a researcher or patient knows what treatment is being given. To avoid bias, a blinded study may be done. 2. Deviation of results …
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18. bias
    the difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value,depriving a statistical result of representativeness by systematically distorting it Category: Mathematics • an accelerometer output when no acceleration is applied Category: Standards, measures and testing • a phase relation between two terms indicating that a subject has been trea…
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19. Bias
    The deviation of results from the truth due to the way in which the study is conducted.
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20. Bias
    Communications signal distortion with respect to bit timing.
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21. Bias
    Definition (keystage 2) A statistical process is biased if the possible outcomes are not all equally likely; in this case it is said to have a bias towards the more likely outcomes.
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22. Bias
    Definition (keystage 2) Systematic error<br /> A bias prevents something from being fair.
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23. Bias
    Bi"as (bī" a s) noun ; plural Biases (-ĕz). [ French biasis , perhaps from Late Latin bifax two-faced; Latin bis + facies face. See Bi- , and confer Face .] 1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. « Being ignora …
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24. Bias
    Bi"as adjective 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [ Obsolete] Shak. 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
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25. Bias
    Bi"as adverb In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias .
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