Bias (disambiguation)

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

 * Cognitive bias, any of a wide range of effects identified in cognitive science.
 * Confirmation bias, tendency of people to favor information that confirm their beliefs of hypothesis
 * See List of cognitive biases for a comprehensive list

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

 * Bias, Landes, on the coast in southwestern France
 * Bias, Lot-et-Garonne, in southwestern France
 * Bias, West Virginia, a community in the United States
 * Bias Bay, now called Daya Bay, in Guangdong Province, China
 * Bias River, a river in north-western India

People

 * Bias (mythology), multiple figures in Greek mythology
 * Bias Brahmin, a Brahmin community found in India
 * Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
 * Bias, a Spartan commander caught in an ambush by the Athenian general Iphicrates
 * Fanny Bias (1789–1825), French dancer, one of the first who raised on pointes
 * Len Bias (1963–1986), American basketball player
 * Oliver Bias (born 2001), footballer
 * Tiffany Bias (born 1992), Thai basketball player

Organisations

 * BIAS (Berkley Integrated Audio Software), a software company specializing in sound processing software such as Peak and SoundSoap
 * Bremer Institut für angewandte Strahltechnik (BIAS), a research institute dedicated to applied laser optics
 * Belgian International Air Services (BIAS), a former airline from Belgium (1959–80)
 * Birla Institute of Applied Sciences (BIAS), a higher education institute located in Bhimtal, Uttaranchal, India

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