java - “指标”直方图中的“有偏”是什么意思

Question

Codahale 的“指标”收到的属性之一是“有偏见的”。
有人可以解释这是什么意思吗？

public Histogram newHistogram(Class<?> klass,
                     String name,
                     boolean biased)
Creates a new Histogram and registers it under the given class and name.
Parameters:
klass - the class which owns the metric
name - the name of the metric
biased - whether or not the histogram should be biased
Returns:
a new Histogram

Answer 1

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    /**
     * Uses an exponentially decaying sample of 1028 elements, which offers a 99.9% confidence
     * level with a 5% margin of error assuming a normal distribution, and an alpha factor of
     * 0.015, which heavily biases the sample to the past 5 minutes of measurements.
     */
    BIASED {
        @Override
        public Sample newSample() {
            return new ExponentiallyDecayingSample(DEFAULT_SAMPLE_SIZE, DEFAULT_ALPHA);
        }
    };

有偏差的直方图是对最近的测量值赋予更多权重的直方图。