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Parent topics
- Metrology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Statistics [r]: A branch of mathematics that specializes in enumeration, or counted, data and their relation to measured data. [e]
Subtopics
- Accuracy of measurement [r]: closeness of the agreement between the result of a measurement and the value of the measurand [e]
- Measurand [r]: The true value of a parameter of an object or phenomenon being measured (i.e., the measurement free of measurement error) [e]
- Measurement [r]: The act of quantifying a property of an object or relation; the output of the instrument or procedure that does the quantification [e]
- Repeatability of measurement [r]: closeness of the agreement between the results of successive measurements of the same measurand carried out under the same conditions of measurement [e]
Other related topics
- Circular error probability [r]: The most common metric of how close to a target a weapon will strike: the radius of a circle, centered on the mean impact point, in which half the projectiles of that weapon will hit [e]
- Precision-guided munition [r]: A powered or unpowered weapon that adjusts its flight path to hit a specific target [e]
- Sensitivity and specificity [r]: measures for assessing the results of diagnostic and screening tests (National Library of Medicine) [e]
