______ pertains to how closely a group of measurements agree with each other while ______ pertains to how closely the measured values agree with the true or correct value.- ( ) accuracy, precision- ( ) mean, median- ( ) none of the above- ( ) precision, accuracy

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Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)

11th Edition

ISBN:9780134580999

Author:Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn

Publisher:Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn

Chapter1: The Human Body: An Orientation

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______ pertains to how closely a group of measurements agree with each other while ______ pertains to how closely the measured values agree with the true or correct value.

- ( ) accuracy, precision
- ( ) mean, median
- ( ) none of the above
- ( ) precision, accuracy

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Step 1(Introduction)

Accuracy and precision are alike as they both refer to the quality of measurement. Accuracy can be described as the degree of closeness to true value where as Precision is the closeness of measurement to each other.

Mean is the average of the data set. Mean is again of three types as arithmetic mean, geometric mean and harmonic mean. Median is the value that separates the higher half from the lower half of the data set. For a data set median is also considered as the middle value.