[VIM3] 2.14 measurement trueness

trueness of measurement, trueness
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closeness of agreement between the average of an infinite number of replicate measured quantity values and a reference quantity value

Notes

NOTE 1 Measurement trueness is not a quantity and thus cannot be expressed numerically, but measures for closeness of agreement are given in ISO 5725.

NOTE 2 Measurement trueness is inversely related to systematic measurement error, but is not related to random measurement error.

NOTE 3 “Measurement accuracy” should not be used for 'measurement trueness'.

Annotations

ANNOTATION (informative) [5 June 2014] Here "quantity value" can be replaced with "value" without ambiguity: "closeness of agreement between the average of an infinite number of replicate measured values and a reference value".

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2 Measurement