error rate

collocation in English

meaningsoferrorandrate

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations witherror.
error
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈer.ər/
us
/ˈer.ɚ/
a ...
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rate
noun[C]
uk
/reɪt/
us
/reɪt/
the speed at which something happens or changes, or the amount or number of times it happens or changes in a ...
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(Definition oferrorandratefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoferror rate

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Thus, 39.7% of the utterances were recognized perfectly, and the overall word accuracy was 65.6% (that is, the worderrorratewas 34.4%).
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Rules with identical number of matches are sorted by increasingerrorrate(more precise rules come first).
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We observed good perplexity and worderrorrateresults for both techniques, and especially for their combination.
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Furthermore, any participant who had a greater than 30%errorrateon either the completely unrelated trials or related trials was excluded.
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If theerrorrateis larger than a critical value, known as the error threshold, the master sequence disappears from the population.
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In data mining and machine learning communities, several classification algorithms have been proposed, where most of these produce classifiers with an acceptableerrorrate.
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The x-axis represents the probability threshold and the y-axis represents theerrorratein the range (0 10%).
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Among them, an accuracy threshold defines the maximumerrorratea single induced rule must obtain in order to be considered valid.
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Training a neural network to achieve comparableerrorratecan take several days.
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Theerrorratedepends on how it is measured; figures ranging from 1.3% to 2.1% overall for different measurement methods are given.
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In this and the next experiments, only data from participants who had anerrorratelower than 37% on comprehension questions were included.
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Hiserrorratein various aspects of meaning far exceeded hiserrorratein either morphology or syntax.
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Theerrorratefor the alphabet search that followed the delay interval in the nonmemory control task was 1.13%.
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We are aware that this approach substantially reduces the statistical power of tests of association, and that it increases the false-negativeerrorrate.
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Clearly, the mode for the stereotypicerrorratein samples with nominative overextensions was 0.00 (five of the seven samples).
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Measurements of the stereotypicerrorrateof him for he were based on a minimum of five attempts at the target he.
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If this is the only sentence in the evaluation corpus, theerrorratewould be 100%.
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