unbiased
Americanadjective
adjective
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having no bias or prejudice; fair or impartial
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statistics
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(of a sample) not affected by any extraneous factors, conflated variables, or selectivity which influence its distribution; random
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(of an estimator) having an expected value equal to the parameter being estimated; having zero bias
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Also called: discriminatory. (of a significance test). Having a power greater than the predetermined significance level
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Other Word Forms
- unbiasedly adverb
- unbiasedness noun
Etymology
Origin of unbiased
Example Sentences
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"I think this makes the approach more unbiased and better suited for discovering new disease-related changes that might otherwise be missed."
From Science Daily
“The promise of prediction markets is to harness the wisdom of the crowd to create accurate, unbiased forecasts for the most important events to society,” Polymarket said in a note on its site.
It costs more overall, but the unbiased report is worth it.
Dr. Gregor Hartmann of Helmholtz-Zentrum research center, said: "Our method provides an unbiased way to recognize variation in footprints and test hypotheses about their makers. It's an excellent tool for research, education, and even fieldwork."
From Science Daily
The reforms coming out of that period focused on ensuring that analyst recommendations could be trusted as unbiased and not as tools to win investment banking business.
From Barron's
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