accuracy
nouncandidate·updated May 13, 2026
The quality or state of being correct, precise, or near to the true value.
Framework senses
- §1
- The quality or state of being correct, precise, or near to the true value.
- §1 · EU
- Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to datemandatory
- §1
- A qualitative assessment of correctness or freedom from error.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- The measure of an instrument's capability to approach a true or absolute value. It is a function of precision and bias.
- §1
- measure of closeness of results of observations, computations, or estimates to the true values or the values accepted as being true
- §1
- Closeness of computations or estimates to the exact or true values that the statistics were intended to measure.
- §1
- The accuracy of a machine learning system is measured as the percentage of correct predictions or classifications made by the model over a specific data set. It is typically estimated using a test or "hold out" sample, other than the one(s) used to construct the model. Its complement, the error rate, is the proportion of incorrect predictions on the same data.