In: Statistics and Probability
Give examples of several forms of bias
Bias:-
Bias Refers to any problem in the design or conduct of a statistical study tends to favour results.
There are several types are such as cognitive bias ,statistical bias
Such as Reporting bias,funding bias,recall bias,attrition bias ,etc
Example
1)Suppose we want to know the average of IQ of middle school students. If we select students who got matks only will give us biased result in such cases average IQ studenta will be higher than the actual IQ of middle school students.