consistent estimator

an estimator calculated from sample data whose value becomes more and more representative of the true quantity in the larger population as the sample size increases. That is, a consistent estimator is one for which larger samples result in a reduction of bias. An example is the mean: As the size of the sample from which it is calculated increases, the obtained value more closely approximates the actual value in the population it is intended to represent.

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Psychology term of the day

May 10th 2024

Personalized Implicit Association Test

an implicit attitude measure designed to eliminate the potential influence of extrapersonal associations on responses. In this procedure, the relatively normative category labels of pleasant and unpleasant are typically replaced with the more personalized category labels of I like and I don’t like, and no feedback is given regarding classification errors. It is a variation of the Implicit Association Test. [developed by U.S. psychologists Michael A. Olson and Russell H. Fazio (1952– )]