Bias distortion
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In telecommunication
, the term bias distortion has the following meanings:
Bias distortion is expressed in percent of the system
-specified unit interval
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
, the term bias distortion has the following meanings:
- Signal distortionDistortionA distortion is the alteration of the original shape of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted, and often many methods are employed to minimize it in practice...
resulting from a shift in the biasBiasBias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...
. - In digitalDigitalA digital system is a data technology that uses discrete values. By contrast, non-digital systems use a continuous range of values to represent information...
signaling, distortion of the signal in which all the significant intervals have uniformly longer or shorter durations than their theoretical durations.
Bias distortion is expressed in percent of the system
System
System is a set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole....
-specified unit interval
Unit interval
In mathematics, the unit interval is the closed interval , that is, the set of all real numbers that are greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1...
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