In dictionaries:
Bit error rate
Ratio of incorrect to total bits.
Family-wise error rate
In statistics, family-wise error rate is the probability of making one or more false discoveries, or type I errors when performing multiple hypotheses tests.
Word error rate
a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition or machine translation system.
Bayes error rate
In statistical classification, Bayes error rate is the lowest possible error rate for any classifier of a random outcome (into, for example, one of two categories) and is analogous to the irreducible error.
Block Error Rate
a ratio of the number of erroneous blocks to the total number of blocks ansmitted on a digital circuit.
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