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meta-bias

meta-bias is the alternative spelling of metabias.

Meaning of metabias

Noun

metabias (plural metabiases)

  1. A biasing factor, such as publication bias, that results in the available data becoming artificially skewed.
    • An algorithm needs some method of altering its base bias as it is presented with sets of instances. The major claim of this paper is that, as the vast majority of algorithms are intended for use on a collection of problem instances, that meta bias is therefore necessary. Evidence for the fact that...2010, John R. Woodward, Nottingham, “The Necessity of Meta Bias in Search Algorithms”, in International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE), number Dec., IEEE...

Forms of meta-bias

pluralmeta-biases

Questions about meta-bias

What is meta-bias the alternative spelling of?
Meta-bias is the alternative spelling of metabias.

Words near meta-bias in the dictionary

  1. meta-anthracite
  2. meta-argon
  3. meta-attention
  4. meta-autunite
  5. meta-awareness
  6. meta-bias
  7. meta-biases
  8. meta-chlorophenylpiperazine
  9. meta-communication
  10. meta-communications
  11. meta-epistemology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meta-bias (page history and authors); metabias (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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