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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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