Accuracy and precision are two measures of observational error: Accuracy measures how close a given set of observations are to their true value Precision measures how close the observations are to each other. Accuracy and precision of observations lying on a bell curve In the language of statistics: Accuracy is a description of systematic errors, a measure of bias Precision is a description of ran
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