BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Bias
- inaccuracy or deviation in inferences, results, or a statistical method
Wiktionary Definition for: Bias
- countable uncountable inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection
- countable (textile) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric
- electronics a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode
- statistics the difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it
Additional Resources
- The real CBS bias.(Opinion)
- Did CBS News executives let their bias blow up what may potentially have been a big story on the eve of an even bigger election? Yes, but that answer depends on what bias we're talking about. If we are talking about the journalist's bias for the &q...
- Research articles 2005-01-17
- Meta-Study on Phone-Cancer Studies Shows Bias
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Studies on whether mobile phones can cause cancer, especially brain tumors, vary widely in quality and there may be some bias in those showing the least risk, researchers reported on Tuesday. So far it is difficult to demonstrate any link, although the best studies do suggest some...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Welcome to the Dark Side: Hedge Fund Attrition and Survivorship Bias Over the Period 1994-2001
- Hedge funds exhibit a high rate of attrition that has increased substantially over time. Using data over the period 1994-2001, the article shows that lack of size, lack of performance and an increasingly aggressive attitude of old and new fund managers alike are the main factors behind this. Although attrition...
- White papers 2001-12-11
- A Unified Variational Approach to Denoising and Bias Correction in MR
- This paper proposes a novel bias correction method for magnetic resonance MR imaging that uses complementary body coil and surface coil images. The former are spatially homogeneous but have low signal intensity; the latter provide excellent signal response but have large bias fields. They present a variational framework where they...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Clinic cleared of race bias, but EKG staff upset noted. (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Clinic cleared of race bias, but EKG staff upset noted The U.S. Department of Labor, in its second probe of racial bias at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the last 18 months, said it has found no evidence that the hospital discriminated against blClinic cleared...
- Research articles 1990-07-16
- LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and conflicts of interest.(FINANCIAL NEWS)(LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.A., Morgan Stanley Group Inc.)(Brief article)
- LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and conflicts of interest. The row concerned accusations of bias from research published by ... LVMH and Morgan Stanley have agreed to end their four-year dispute regarding alleged research bias and...
- Research articles 2007-02-23
- Anti-Bias Curriculum
- Derma n-Sparks, Louise and The Anti-Bias Curriculum Taskforce. Anti-Bias Curriculum, 1988. Pacific Oaks, CA: Pacific Oaks Bookstore. 30 minutes, color. $35. The Anti-Bias Curriculum film is an excellent multicultural education resource for teacher educators, teacher education students, and in-service teachers, especially those in early childhood education ECE. The film discusses...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Products and Prejudice: Measuring Country-of-Origin Bias in U.S. Wine Imports
- Should exporters worry about country-of-origin bias? Although the pervasiveness of country-level product advertising suggests that they do, lack of data has limited the empirical study of subjective bias toward products from a specific country. Using data from the U.S. wine industry, including numerical blind tasting evaluations, this paper directly computes...
- White papers 2003-07-03
- Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- This paper presents evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, it shows that investors fail to fully account for optimistic bias associated with analyst disagreement. This bias arises for two reasons. First, analysts issue...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Generalized Minimum Bias Models
- This paper proposes a flexible and comprehensive approach for minimum bias models - "Generalized Minimum Bias Models"GMBM. Unlike the Generalized Linear Models GLMs that require the exponential family distribution assumption of response variables, the GMBM approach relaxes the distribution assumption. In addition, due to its model selection flexibility, it believes...
- White papers 2005-01-18
- Knowledge Measurement and Interviewer Bias
- Organizations can be defined as knowledge-based systems with the objective to influence all knowledge processes. Defining and measuring the knowledge value of the company are key strategic concerns in contemporary companies. First, this paper discusses the basic knowledge measurement approaches. During the process of knowledge identification the interviewing method is...
- White papers 2005-06-29
- No Rating Bias Found Against Mutuals.(bias against mutual insurers in the ratings assigned by two major rating agencies)
- While rating organization processes and communications need to be improved, there is no clear bias against mutual insurers in the ratings assigned by two major rating agencies, according to a report released by the National Association of Mutual Insu While rating organization processes and communications need...
- Research articles 2000-10-02
- America's bias.(Federal Reserve )(responded to strong growth by switching its "bias" from neutral to an inclination to raise rates )(Brief Article)
- The Federal Reserve left American interest rates unchanged but responded to strong growth by switching its "bias" from neutral to an inclination to raise rates in future. Some apparent justification for the shift arrived almost at once, as The Federal Reserve left American interest rates...
- Research articles 1999-10-09
- Not being able to find political bias at CBS News is like not being able to find political bias at ABC
- * Not being able to find political bias at CBS News is like not being able to find political bias at ABC. Or NBC. Or PBS. Or NPR. Or ...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- Task force on bias faulted for scope
- An Air Force task force due to report Monday on religious bias claims at the Air Force Academy had not interviewed key critics as of Friday. Among them is a pastoral care expert who said she observed religious bias at the academy during an invited visit and...
- Research articles 2005-05-21
- Mother delivers warning 20 years after Bias' death
- As the 20th anniversary of the death of basketball star Len Bias approaches, his mother continues to warn of the dangers of drug abuse. Working with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Lonise Bias on Thursday said on a conference call with reporters that she considers...
- Research articles 2006-05-26
- The ABCs Of CBS' Bias
- Mark, Jonathan The Jewish Week 01-04-2002 The ABCs Of CBS' Bias Most Jews might think a book on media bias would begin and end with the Middle East, but Israel was an afterthought to veteran journalist Bernard Goldberg. Author of...
- Research articles 2002-01-04
- Job Searching - 50 + Age Bias - If The Door Is Shut, Knock It Down
- If you feel the over 50 + Age Bias has shut the job door for you, you are probably correct. To knock down this barrier take some steps to level the playing field. Don't waste time being mad - do something powerful! The facts are that younger workers have a...
- White papers 2008-06-23
- B-School Profs on Madoff, Selection Bias and Missing the Next Google
- Three lessons from the Bernie Madoff scandal -- Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, sees many lessons, both useful and non-useful, coming on the heels of the Madoff scandal. The urge to over-diversify, search for more bad apples and define "acceptable" levels of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Ultra Wide Band Bias Tee and DC Block. (Full Spectrum).(Anritsu)(Product Announcement)
- Anritsu Company introduces the V255 Gen II Ultra Wide Band Bias Tee and V265 DC Block that feature Anritsu's V Connector[R] to create excellent performance over the 50 kHz to 65 GHz frequency range. The V255 and V265 have been developed specifically for next-generation 0C768 optical...
- Research articles 2001-12-01
