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allowable error

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allowable error,
the amount of error that can be tolerated without invalidating the medical usefulness of the analytic result. Allowable error has a 95% limit of analytic error; only 1 sample in 20 can have an error greater than this limit.

allowable error
Allowable analytical error Statistics A systemic error that is 'acceptable', both statistically and analytically–eg, 95% limit of error. See Standard deviation.


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