Sentences with phrase «error in measurement»

There are a number of potential sources of error in measurements of teacher effectiveness based on student achievement data.

Either way, errors in measurement probably aren't to blame.

Using real data from South African children to illustrate rounding errors in measurement.

So the [theoretical] errors in the measurements are of the same order of magnitude as the changes being reported [at least for ocean circulation].

The team used large cosmological simulations generated at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), for example, to check for errors in their measurements.

The systematic errors in measurements from three ideally sited and maintained temperature sensors are calculated herein.

As Glazerman and his coauthor Liz Potamites wrote, severe and correctable errors in the measurement of student performance are often used to make critical education policy decisions associated with the law.

It is closer to the 0.5 / sqrt (25) = 0.1 cm uncertainty that one would expect if there were random errors in the measurements.

Our estimates of key climate model uncertainties are constrained by observations of the climate system for the period 1906 - 1995, 7 and uncertainty in emissions reflect errors in measurement of current emissions and expert judgment about variables that influence key economic projections.

get to work on showing inconsistencies and errors in measurements of dating igneous rocks using the K - Ar method.

Gaia will also help pinpoint the orbit of Pluto, eventually bringing down errors in its measurement from 2000 kilometres to around 50 kilometres.

I wanted to let you know there were a couple of errors in the measurements for the Kale and Quinoa Salad because mom wrote the recipe from memory...

It will be soupy so when you read that it calls for 12 cups of broth / stock, you have read correctly and there is no error in measurements.

Joachim Fischer of the German National Metrology Institute in Berlin, who heads the CIPM task group on redefining the kelvin, says the margin of error in the measurement, a record - breaking 0.71 parts per million, is potentially low enough to officially redefine the kelvin.

Facing a crowded lecture hall at CERN last Friday, Dario Autiero of the OPERA group explained how the researchers went to great lengths to remove any sources of error in their measurements: they measured distances using an extremely high - precision GPS called PolarX, measured time at the two locations to an accuracy of one nanosecond using cesium clocks, and accounted for the tides, Earth's rotation, variations between day and night and spring and fall, etc..

Despite the care the OPERA researchers took to rule out errors in the measurement, that possibility remains.

Astronomer Chris Flynn, from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, ran his own calculations and suspects the other astronomers had an error in their measurement or analysis.

Errors in measurement could lead to schools» and teachers» being rewarded or sanctioned wrongfully.

Greater consistency will reduce the errors in measurement of achievement gains and, thus, value - added.

It's not that the seller or their agent is intentionally trying to deceive — errors in measurements can be introduced in a number of ways.

It is not enough merely to republish measured means that are withing the error window of the model, it also needs to account for the error in measurement.

If you have errors in a measurement, it is revealed by a larger standard deviation in the results.

And if you take the difference between yesterday's and today's min on a station by station basis where the measure is done the same way, I think you get the best possible value, plus any error in the measurement can't get any larger because they don't accumulate, it can only get as large as the yesterday's and today's error added together.

That estimate was based on an error in the measurement system (floats) and was retracted.

I can provide an example of one specific case where a difference between model values and measurements revealed a source of error in the measurements.