BACKGROUND The basis for this study is the fact that instrument error increases the variance of the distribution of body mass index (BMI). Combined with a defined cut-off value this may impact upon the estimated proportion of overweight and obesity. It is important to ensure high quality surveillance data in order to follow trends of estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity. The purpose o...

To reduce the effect from instrument error when getting characteristic parameters of branches of fruit trees by the electromagnetic tracking instrument, a calibration method was sounded based on a discussion of the instrument error of electromagnetic tracking instrument. Finally, the method was tested in an experiment. By comparing the data of the experiment and the standard data which was got ...

The time-varying spectra of eight musical instrument sounds were randomly altered by a time-invariant process to determine how detection of spectral alteration varies with degree of alteration, instrument, musical experience, and spectral variation. Sounds were resynthesized with centroids equalized to the original sounds, with frequencies harmonically flattened, and with average spectral error...

In acquiring digital images, electronic systems not only detect optical signals but also convert them into a digital form for further image processing and exchange. Practical systems can introduce error during color calibration, and when acquiring image scene information. For large populations it is often assumed that the error can be modeled as a random variable having a zero mean. In the case...

We performed a two-stage prospective evaluation of the error detection capabilities of duplicate analysis of blood-gas specimens. In the first stage we analyzed 1601 specimens with a Corning Model 175 blood-gas analyzer as the test instrument and a Corning Model 178 analyzer as the reference instrument, and in the second stage we analyzed 1544 specimens with two Model 178 analyzers. In each sta...