Precision
Closeness of repeated measurements to each other. Says nothing about accuracy: a precise method can be consistently wrong.
Related terms
- Accuracy
- Closeness of a measured value to the true value. Demonstrated by recovery experiments during validation.
- Repeatability
- Precision under identical conditions in one session, same analyst, same instrument. The narrowest kind of precision.
see also Validation · Precision
see also Intermediate precision
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 22 glossary terms beginning with P