bias-robust
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Describing statistics that are relatively unbiased even when some assumptions about the data or the model do not hold true.
Example Sentences
- "The theory of bias-robust regression [ Mar89 ] provides guidelines for the selection of good robust estimators. For calculating beta, either of the following two bias-robust estimators work quite well: (a) an adaptive least trimmed squares estimate, and (b) an MM estimate of [Yoh88], computed as suggested in [Yoh91]."
- "Bias-robust methods for estimating the mean squared error ( MSE ) of linear predictors of finite population quantities, i.e., methods that remain approximately unbiased under failure of assumptions about second order and higher moments, have been developed."
Inflected Forms
more bias-robust (comparative)
most bias-robust (superlative)