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systematic error

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noun

Statistics.
  1. a persistent error that cannot be attributed to chance.


Etymology

Origin of systematic error

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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The question is still clearly out there, and there are reasons to believe both sides: that there’s some kind of systematic error that both are subject to or that the question’s still out.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2023

It would therefore be naive to believe that systematic error is a problem for biomedicine alone.

From Nature • May 9, 2012

In the latest run, the pulses were shorter and more precisely timed, ruling out some sources of systematic error.

From Nature • Nov. 23, 2011

Art McDonald of Queen's University in Kingston, Canada and the SNO says that people have to look carefully at the calculation, which may itself have a systematic error.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2011

Directly, there is a systematic error in the co-ordination of employment policy and tax policy.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas