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Could someone please explain to me what a negative relative error means? I got a relative error value of -30% in my lap and am unsure of what this means in terms of accuracy and percision of my lab data/experiment. Any help would be great thank you!
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I'm still having trouble understanding what this would mean in terms of accuracy and percision though. Would a relative error value of -30% mean that the exeriment is acurate and percise? or no?
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