When gathering a measurement using a spectroscopy instrument, the user wants to be confident in the result. Whether the technique is OES, XRF, or LIBS, or if thickness or composition are measured, the ...

Very often, in the test and measurement industry, a measurement is made by instrumentation, which is often subject to errors. It is difficult to estimate the true value of the measured quantity given ...

With the usage of micropipettes in the life science laboratory, various pipette and pipetting errors have been linked. Users familiar with such micropipette issues can assist users to reduce further ...

Population abundances are rarely, if ever, known. Instead, they are estimated with some amount of uncertainty. The resulting measurement error has its consequences on ...

Defining accuracy and error in the realm of test equipment. The four ways to specify accuracy. Interpreting actual error vs. specified error. When specifying and ...