Title: examination accuracy
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - examination accuracy
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.10006
Status: current

Definition
Closeness of agreement between an examined value and a true nominal property value of an examinand.

Note
Examination accuracy is a feature of an individual examined value, but not of an examining system.

Example
The true nominal property value is "A", the first examined value is "B", and the second examined value is "A".Explanation: The first examined value is inaccurate, and the second examined value is accurate.

Related Terms
- examinand: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09985
- examined value: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10000
- examining system: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09986
- true nominal property value: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/10001

Source
- PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 924 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)

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- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10006/xml

Citation: Citation: 'examination accuracy' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10006
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