Bias (disambiguation)

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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 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

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

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

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

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

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