Timeline for What exactly is the precision of an estimate?
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| Nov 4, 2017 at 17:23 | vote | accept | amarsh | ||
| Oct 23, 2017 at 21:37 | comment | added | whuber♦ | The inverse variance is a formal, technical use of "precision" that, although related to other senses of precision, is meaningful in a slightly different context. I believe that most people who measure quantities think of precision either as a typical size of an (otherwise unbiased) error or as a typical size of an error relative to a typical value. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 21:33 | history | edited | AdamO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 21:27 | history | answered | AdamO | CC BY-SA 3.0 |