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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Accuracy
The absolute nearness to the true value as compared to `precision` which denotes relative or apparent nearness to the true value. In a more specialized sense, the word occurs to mean (i) in relation to an estimator, unbiasedness, (ii) in relation to the reciprocal or standard error......
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Accuracy of the mean
The closeness of agreement between the true value and the mean result obtained by applying the experimental procedure to a very large number of times. The smaller the systematic part of the experimental errors which affect the results, the more accurate is the procedure......
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