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  2. Present bias - Wikipedia

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    Present bias is the tendency to settle for a smaller present reward rather than wait for a larger future reward, in a trade-off situation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It describes the trend of overvaluing immediate rewards, while putting less worth in long-term consequences. [ 3 ]

  3. Time preference - Wikipedia

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    This can be captured by a quasi-hyperbolic curve, wherein there is a fitted parameter for the magnitude of the first day effect. This is commonly called the beta-delta model, wherein there is a beta parameter that accounts for the present bias. The equation for utility over time looks like [19]

  4. Dynamic inconsistency - Wikipedia

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    A different form of dynamic inconsistency arises as a consequence of "projection bias" (not to be confused with a defense mechanism of the same name). Humans have a tendency to mispredict their future marginal utilities by assuming that they will remain at present levels. This leads to inconsistency as marginal utilities (for example, tastes ...

  5. Bias–variance tradeoff - Wikipedia

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    In statistics and machine learning, the bias–variance tradeoff describes the relationship between a model's complexity, the accuracy of its predictions, and how well it can make predictions on previously unseen data that were not used to train the model. In general, as we increase the number of tunable parameters in a model, it becomes more ...

  6. Statistical model specification - Wikipedia

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    A variable omitted from the model may have a relationship with both the dependent variable and one or more of the independent variables (causing omitted-variable bias). [3] An irrelevant variable may be included in the model (although this does not create bias, it involves overfitting and so can lead to poor predictive performance).

  7. 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 ...

  8. Bias (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Detection bias occurs when a phenomenon is more likely to be observed for a particular set of study subjects. For instance, the syndemic involving obesity and diabetes may mean doctors are more likely to look for diabetes in obese patients than in thinner patients, leading to an inflation in diabetes among obese patients because of skewed detection efforts.

  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: