Statistical Thinking
Making sense of bias and variance!
A beginner-friendly primer on two fundamental data science concepts
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4 min readMay 27, 2022
What is bias?
Depends where you’re hearing the word. I’ve made a tongue-in-cheek laundry list of various bias usages for your amusement, but in this article, we’ll focus on one specific species of bias — statistical bias —which I’ll explain in a moment.