Physics A-Level

Spread

What Spread means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.

Definition of Spread

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Reference: OCR

The scatter of the repeats, used to judge whether a value is genuinely anomalous.

OCR · Evaluation (study guide)

Topics that use Spread

Evaluation (OCR A-Level)

Related terms

Precision
Accuracy
Anomaly
Margin of error
Percentage error

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