Biology A-Level
Precision versus accuracy
What Precision versus accuracy means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Precision versus accuracy
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Precision describes how closely repeated measurements agree with each other, while accuracy describes how close a measurement is to the true value.
Topics that use Precision versus accuracy
- Evaluation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Uncertainty in apparatus
- Anomalies versus random variation
- Anomaly
- Comparing values with repeats and trends
- Excluding anomalous values from means
- Margin of error
- Percentage error calculation
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