Artillery criterion

Artillery criterion

The criterion used by the artillery of some countries for accepting or rejecting data, requiring that measurements farther from the average than 4 standard deviations be rejected.

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The criterion used by the artillery of some countries for accepting or rejecting data, requiring that measurements farther from the average than 4 standard deviations be rejected.

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