Precise or accurate? Your instruments must be both. In this article, we will try to bring some clarity to the terms, with a ...

Accurate measurements are those close to what they should be. We know the temperature of the human body is 37°C. An accurate thermometer will give us this value (unless we are poorly and have a ...

Reproducible results (limitation of random error) within the thresholds defined by the manufacturer's precision specifications cannot be obtained (Fig. 1). Our findings indicate that accuracy ...