Which would you use to estimate accuracy?

Question

Question 23 options:

a. standard deviation
b. percent error

Answer 1

To estimate accuracy, the best option would be b. percent error.

Percent error specifically measures how close a measured value is to a true or accepted value and is a common way to express accuracy in terms of a percentage.

Standard deviation, on the other hand, is used to measure the variability or spread of a set of values, rather than directly assessing the accuracy of a measurement.