All Textbook Topics - Measurement - Precision introduction - Precision describes how closely grouped a set of repeat readings are
Precision describes how closely grouped a set of repeat readings are
Precision is a measure of how closely grouped a set of data is. This data set is gathered by taking repeat measurements.
The more closely grouped the repeat measurements are, the higher the level of precision.
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