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  2. Bias (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a high prevalence of disease in a study population increases positive predictive values, which will cause a bias between the prediction values and the real ones. [ 4 ] Observer selection bias occurs when the evidence presented has been pre-filtered by observers, which is so-called anthropic principle .

  3. Selection bias - Wikipedia

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    Attrition bias is a kind of selection bias caused by attrition (loss of participants), [13] discounting trial subjects/tests that did not run to completion. It is closely related to the survivorship bias , where only the subjects that "survived" a process are included in the analysis or the failure bias , where only the subjects that "failed" a ...

  4. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Also known as current moment bias or present bias, and related to Dynamic inconsistency. A good example of this is a study showed that when making food choices for the coming week, 74% of participants chose fruit, whereas when the food choice was for the current day, 70% chose chocolate.

  5. Bias of an estimator - Wikipedia

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    Bias is a distinct concept from consistency: consistent estimators converge in probability to the true value of the parameter, but may be biased or unbiased (see bias versus consistency for more). All else being equal, an unbiased estimator is preferable to a biased estimator, although in practice, biased estimators (with generally small bias ...

  6. Self-selection bias - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, self-selection bias arises in any situation in which individuals select themselves into a group, causing a biased sample with nonprobability sampling.It is commonly used to describe situations where the characteristics of the people which cause them to select themselves in the group create abnormal or undesirable conditions in the group.

  7. Choice-supportive bias - Wikipedia

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    The extent of the delay between encoding is a potential factor that could affect choice-supportive bias. If there is a larger delay between encoding (i.e. viewing the information about the options) and retrieval (i.e. memory tests) it is likely to result in more biased choices rather than the impact of the actual choice on choice-supportive ...

  8. Bootstrapping (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Bias: The bootstrap distribution and the sample may disagree systematically, in which case bias may occur. If the bootstrap distribution of an estimator is symmetric, then percentile confidence-interval are often used; such intervals are appropriate especially for median-unbiased estimators of minimum risk (with respect to an absolute loss ...

  9. Survivorship bias - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Elton, Gruber, and Blake showed that survivorship bias is larger in the small-fund sector than in large mutual funds (presumably because small funds have a high probability of folding). [8] They estimate the size of the bias across the U.S. mutual fund industry as 0.9% per annum, where the bias is defined and measured as: