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.