Figure 1 shows that individual measurement values hover around a mean value and the difference between the mean value and true value is the systematic error of ...

All measurements are subject to error. When a reportable value is derived from a measurement or series of measurements, this value is only an estimate of the “true ...

Data that are collected for the production of official statistics or, more generally, for statistical analyses nearly always contain measurement errors. National statistical institutes, other ...

The Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 77, SPECIAL ISSUE: TOPICS IN SURVEY MEASUREMENT AND PUBLIC OPINION (2013), pp. 173-193 (21 pages) As survey researchers have begun exploiting paradata—for example, ...

Given the potentially strong, adverse effects of measurement error and the possibility of minimizing these using Hidden Markov models (HMMs), the aim of this thesis ...

In epidemiological studies for an environmental risk assessment, doses are often observed with errors. However, they have received little attention in data analysis. This paper studies the effect of ...

Particle analysis is a crucial step in the quality control of bulk materials and is performed in laboratories worldwide. The methods used have usually been established for years and are rarely ...

I’m going to deviate from my normal coverage of modular instruments and alternative testing techniques, and focus on an associated design and test issue: error ...