Biology A-Level
Uncertainty in apparatus
What Uncertainty in apparatus means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Uncertainty in apparatus
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The doubt in a single reading, often taken as half the smallest scale division for an analogue instrument or the stated tolerance for a digital one.
Topics that use Uncertainty in apparatus
- Evaluation (OCR A-Level)
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- Precision versus accuracy
- Anomalies versus random variation
- Anomaly
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- Excluding anomalous values from means
- Margin of error
- Percentage error calculation
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