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 spending ...

Patch-clamp recording techniques have revolutionized understanding of the function and sub-cellular location of ion channels in excitable cells. The cell-attached patch-clamp configuration represents ...

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 ...

In order to measure the mechanical properties of materials in compression, tension, bending or torsion, a universal testing machine is utilized. This article outlines the two different types ...

Accurate measurement is something most people assume happens automatically. Whether weighing ingredients for a recipe, checking room temperature, measuring a room for furniture, or relying on a scale ...

In my job as an applications engineer, I’ve been fielding lots of calls about test and measurement problems that engineers encounter with high current applications like characterizing high power LED ...

Defining accuracy and error in the realm of test equipment. The four ways to specify accuracy. Interpreting actual error vs. specified error. When specifying and ...