Systematic Errors: facts and fictions

Abstract

The treatment of systematic errors is often mishandled. This is due to lack of understanding and education, based on a fundamental ambiguity as to what is meant by the term. This note addresses the problems and offers guidance to good practice.

14 pages, 4 figures

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