Section 3
Measurement Error
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Bias
Systematic, or biased, errors are errors which consistently yield results either higher or lower than the correct measurement.
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Chance Error
Random, or chance, errors are errors that are a combination of results both higher and lower than the desired measurement.
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Outliers
In statistics, an outlier is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data.