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biased, ppl. a.|ˈbəɪəst|
Also biassed.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Of bowls: Having a bias.
1611Markham Countr. Content. i. (1615) 108 Your round byazed bowles for open grounds. 1877R. E. Egerton-Warburton Poems 15 The bias'd bowl roll'd circling to the jack.
2. a. Influenced; inclined in some direction; unduly or unfairly influenced; prejudiced.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch, Rich. II, lxxv, How byassed all humane Actions are! 1662Fuller Worthies iii. 110 If he were a Biassed and Partiall writer. 1681Dryden Abs. & Achit. i. 79 When to Sin our byast Nature leans. 1870Pall Mall G. 18 Aug. 2 Abstention from biassed language.
b. spec. in Statistics. Containing a bias or error which will not balance itself out on average.
1911G. U. Yule Introd. Theory of Statistics xiv. 276 Any sample, taken in the way supposed, is likely to be definitely biassed, in the sense that it will not tend to include, even in the long run, equal proportions of the A's and α's in the original material. 1931Economist 18 July 127/2 What statisticians describe as ‘biassed errors’ in company accounting (the term is used without any derogatory sense) are made cumulative.
3. Of fabric: (see quot.). Cf. bias n. 1.
1919W. B. Faraday Dict. Aeronaut. Terms 55 Biassed fabric, fabric laid with its threads inclined to the length of the piece of cloth. |