biased estimate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbiasedandestimate
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biased
adjective
uk/ˈbaɪ.əst/us/ˈbaɪ.əst/
showing an unreasonable like or dislike for a person based on ...
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estimate
noun[C]
uk/ˈes.tɪ.mət/us/ˈes.tə.mət/
a guess of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something ...
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(Definition ofbiasedandestimatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Failure to fit different intercepts would result in the upwardlybiasedestimateshown by the dashed line.
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In neither of these methods does detection of seeds in the soil depend on germination; so these data should provide a lessbiasedestimateof persistence.
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This gives a lessbiasedestimateof the impact of new technologies on expenditures without going to the extreme of including all new technologies irrespective of their medical value.
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However, an analysis in which respondents with missing data were included produced similar results, indicating that excluding the non-participants did not produce biased estimates.
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Then, if these effects are present, they will lead to biased estimates of relative expression and misleading results.
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Again in contrast to linear regression, there may be many local minima of the function to be optimized and even the global minimum may produce abiasedestimate.
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Often, people refer to abiasedestimateor an unbiased estimate, but they really are talking about an estimate from a biased estimator, or an estimate from an unbiased estimator.
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We have shown that environmentally induced heterogeneity among genetically identical individuals is sufficient to generate biased estimates of age-specific genetic variance for log-mortality rates.
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These in turn may affect outcomes, which would lead to biased estimates of the mental health drug effects.
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Public policy decisions based on biased estimates will be inefficient and sub-optimal.
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However, they may also result in biased estimates (systematic error), for example, if several participants misinterpret the task or an attribute in the same way.
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Relying solely on reports of numeric birth weight will result in biased estimates of the prevalence and correlates of low birth weight.
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Therefore, their inclusion amongst the regressors could result in biased estimates because of simultaneity problems.
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A ridge regression estimator would yield biased estimates of the learning effect.
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In conclusion, raw time trade-off scores will give biased estimates of health state utility when the individual's utility function for time is not linear.
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Although this will not produce biased estimates, it will underestimate their variance and hence overestimate their significance.
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The separability of the reproducible inputs from raw materials is rejected, indicating that the exclusion of raw materials would result in biased estimates of regulatory effects.
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