Bias

A physical quantity  is measured using the estimator S, which is a function of the elements  of a sample,  . The difference between the expectation value of the estimator, E(S), and the true value  of the physical quantity is the bias of the estimator:  . The estimator is unbiased if  . For the relation between bias and variance of an estimator, see Bishop95.

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