Review article

Meaning and Comparison Analysis of the Terms Mean Square Error and Standard Deviation

Dušan Benčić ; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Gorana Novaković ; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper presents the brief historical review of developing the measures for assessing the quality of measurements and results with special reference to comparison analysis of the terms "standard deviation" and "mean square error" according to the international agreement for expressing the uncertainty in measurement where the standard deviation has been adopted as the basic measure of the uncertainty of results.

Keywords

Error; deviation; mean square error; standard deviation; uncertainty of measurement

Hrčak ID:

2309

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2309

Publication date:

14.3.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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