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 ...

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 ...

Test instruments such as oscilloscopes and DMMs (digital multimeters) often let you get the measurement results you need with just the press of a button. But the number on a meter's display or the ...

Science journalism is more popular than ever, but it comes with plenty of sensationalism. Stories reporting that “everything you ever thought about xxx was wrong” generate the most page-clicks so ...

GPS receivers must deal with measurements and models that have some degree of error, which gets propagated into the position solution. If the errors are systematically different for the different ...