http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/05/07/bias/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/05/07/bias/comment-page-1/#comment-50310 Bias and consistency — The Endeavour Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:17:14 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/05/07/bias/#comment-50310 [...] Suppose you have two ways to estimate something you’re interested in. One is biased and one is unbiased. Surely the unbiased method is better, right? Not necessarily. Statistical bias is not as bad as it sounds. [...] [...] Suppose you have two ways to estimate something you’re interested in. One is biased and one is unbiased. Surely the unbiased method is better, right? Not necessarily. Statistical bias is not as bad as it sounds. [...]

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