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The difference between the expected value of a parameter estimator & the true value of the parameter. Do NOT use this tag to refer to the [bias-term] / [bias-node] (ie the [intercept]).

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In the bias-variance tradeoff, who is biased and towards what?

I understand that bias (in the context of bias-variance tradeoff) is "the expectation of the difference between the true, and estimated, parameters". … There are many articles which clearly explain what bias is, but this point is not mentioned. …
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