Solved – Does bias in statistics and machine learning mean the same thing

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In statistics, people often talk about unbiased estimators. In machine learning, bias variance trade-off is mentioned all the time.

Does bias in both contexts mean the same thing?

Does an unbiased estimator have a bias for the data it tries to model?

Best Answer

Yes, they mean the same thing.

This free chapter covers bias and variance of estimators: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/ml.html

Please see section 5.4, which has a good explanation of what they are.

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