Medical notes guide patient care. Every decision depends on them. If notes are wrong, care can suffer. Speed is helpful, but ...

Modern cars surround drivers with digital certainty, yet one of the most basic numbers on the dashboard is quietly biased in ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Defining accuracy and error in the realm of test equipment. The four ways to specify accuracy. Interpreting actual error vs. specified error. When specifying and ...

Machine learning (ML) is about making predictions about new data based on old data. The quality of any machine-learning algorithm is ultimately determined by the quality of those predictions. However, ...

It’s commonly said that the great thing about standards is that there are so many of them. Of course, that’s talking about competing standards. But there’s another kind of standard that you want a lot ...

How well is the U.S. economy doing, and where might it be heading in the future? To answer these questions, we need a way to assess the total amount of goods and services the economy is producing in a ...