When a warehouse manager suspects poor system performance, the first step is typically to check the real data. Unfortunately, more than 50% of the time, system performance is measured incorrectly.

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 ...

There are many ways that measurement can be used in the diagnostic process and in assessing the incidence of diagnostic errors, according to the committee that authored the Institute of Medicine’s ...

A program for calibration and routine testing of weighing instruments ensures accurate results. A measurement of any kind is affected by the errors and uncertainties that exist in that measurement ...

Data that are collected for the production of official statistics or, more generally, for statistical analyses nearly always contain measurement errors. National statistical institutes, other ...

The adsorption of water by thermocouple psychrometer assemblies is known to cause errors in the determination of water potential. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of sample size and ...

Some bit errors in the output words of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), such as those due to comparator metastability (sparkle codes) [1] and low-frequency flicker noise, occur over a large ...

New York: The Nielsen company on Friday admitted to errors dating back to March in its measurement of television viewing, statistics that serve as the foundation for billions of dollars in advertising ...