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Comments on the editorial "On quality of a measurement result"

A recent editorial reviewed several definitions of quality. The limitations of these definitions are discussed here, with a simple suggestion to define quality as meeting a specified error rate whereby the required elements for an error rate are listed.

Jan S. Krouwer

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