Lab glossary
Accuracy
How close a result is to the true or accepted value. In method validation it is usually shown by recovering known amounts of analyte spiked into placebo or sample.
- Also: trueness
- Also: recovery
Where you will meet this term
- InstrumentAnalytical balance
- InstrumentHot Air Oven
- InstrumentIncubator / BOD incubator
- InstrumentLiquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS / LC-MS/MS)
- InstrumentMicrobalance
- InstrumentLiquid Particle Counter (Light Obscuration)
- InstrumentAirborne particle counter
- InstrumentEndotoxin (LAL) reader
- InstrumentMembrane filtration unit