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The terms
accuracy
and
precision
are frequently used to describe
the quality of a measurement:
Accuracy
specifies the
proximity
of the mean value
Precision
of a measurement to the
true value
.
specifies the
degree of reproducibility
of a measurement.
Note:
High precision
a small standard deviation
σ
is equivalent to
5.2
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