In the game of crown green bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl.
Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
- Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biasses to draw too much.
The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
A voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode.
The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.