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bias-robust

bias-robust adjective: describing statistics that are relatively unbiased even when some assumptions about the data or the model do not hold true.

Adjective

bias-robust (comparative more bias-robust, superlative most bias-robust)

  1. Describing statistics that are relatively unbiased even when some assumptions about the data or the model do not hold true.
    • The theory of bias-robust regression [ Mar89 ] provides guidelines for the selection of good robust estimators. For calculating beta, either of the following two bias-robust estimators work quite well: (a) an adaptive least trimmed squares estimate, and (b) an MM estimate of [Yoh88], computed as...2002, Usama M. Fayyad, Georges G. Grinstein, Andreas Wierse, Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, page 310
    • Bias-robust methods for estimating the mean squared error ( MSE ) of linear predictors of finite population quantities, i.e., methods that remain approximately unbiased under failure of assumptions about second order and higher moments, have been developed.2011, Survey Methodology - Volumes 37-38, page 153

Forms of bias-robust

comparativemore bias-robust
superlativemost bias-robust

Words formed from bias-robust

Questions about bias-robust

What does bias-robust mean?
Bias-robust means describing statistics that are relatively unbiased even when some assumptions about the data or the model do not hold true.
What part of speech is bias-robust?
Bias-robust is an adjective.

Words near bias-robust in the dictionary

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  2. bias tape
  3. bias tapes
  4. bias-plies
  5. bias-ply
  6. bias-robust
  7. bias-robustness
  8. biasable
  9. Biasca
  10. biased
  11. biasedly

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