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Frequently used to describe the
quality
of a measurement:
Accuracy
:
Precision
:
GUM: Accuracy and Precision
specifies the
closeness
of agreement between
repeated independent measurements and the
true value
.
Is a measure of the
degree of reproducibility
or repeatability
of results.
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Note:
High precision
a small standard deviation
s
is equivalent to