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Definition of biased

Biased
Bias Bi"as, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr. & vb. n. Biasing.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. --De Quincey.
Bias
Bias Bi"as, a. 1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Bias
Bias Bi"as, adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
Bias
Bias Bi"as, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased (b[imac]"ast); p. pr. & vb. n. Biasing.] To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. --De Quincey.

Meaning of biased from wikipedia

- bias in the published literature. This can propagate further as literature reviews of claims about support for a hypothesis will themselves be biased...
- results Bias (statistics), the systematic distortion of a statistic Biased sample, a sample falsely taken to be typical of a po****tion Estimator bias, a bias...
- approximates linear operation. For low distortion, the transistor must be biased so the output signal swing does not drive the transistor into a region of...
- told that a medium is biased tend to believe that it is biased, and this belief is unrelated to whether that medium is actually biased or not. The only other...
- deviation); because a biased estimator may be unbiased with respect to different measures of central tendency; because a biased estimator gives a lower...
- thinking skills. Biased search for information, biased interpretation of this information, and biased memory recall, have been invoked to explain four...
- illegal drugs will be a biased sample because it does not include home-schooled students or dropouts. A sample is also biased if certain members are underrepresented...
- estimating what is more likely by what is more available in memory, which is biased toward vivid, unusual, or emotionally charged examples Representativeness...
- exponent is biased in the engineering sense of the word – the value stored is offset from the actual value by the exponent bias, also called a biased exponent...
- algorithm can be described as biased.: 332  This bias may be intentional or unintentional (for example, it can come from biased data obtained from a worker...