Ratio of the number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks incorrectly received to the total number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks transmitted.
The probability of a bit, character or block being in error within a given sample size.
A measure of the performance of a digital transmission system. It can be specified as a bit error rate (the probability of error per bit transmitted), as a block error rate (the probability of one or more errors in a specified-length block of bits), or in other forms such as percent error-free seconds.
Ratio of the number of signal elements (or data) incorrectly received to the total number transmitted. (2) The probability of an error occurring during the transmission of a message.
The number of meter reading errors divided by meters read times one thousand (unfortunately most companies report errors per thousand instead of per cent as virtually all other industries). Note this does not include estimated meter readings.
The frequency at which defective service occurs.
The number of data bits received in error to the total number of data bits transmitted.
Transmission test equipment, software, or network adapters may have a separate ability to transmit a known group of packets over a network in order to measure how accurately they are returned - the percentage of packages with errors is known as the error rate.
In many cases, it may be acceptable if an input device generates a certain number of errors. This is often referred to as the error rate and the acceptable level will vary according to the input device being used and the business application. Optical character recognition, for example, is generally considered a comparatively unreliable means of entering data. At present, a typical OCR software package will have an error rate of between five and ten per cent.
The number of errors of a given type that occur when reading a specified number of bits.
The ratio of the number of data units in error to the total number of data units
In BERT Testing, the percentage of cases in which the received bit pattern differs from that which was transmitted. SerialBERT calculates the rate and displays it in the Statistics Window. For example, if SerialBERT had received 40,448 bits and one of them was an error, the Error Rate would be .001992%. SerialBERT also calculates the number of errored blocks and seconds. In the example above, we had 50 blocks received, with 1 error for a rate of 2% and in the 13 seconds it took to receive those bits, 1 second had an error for a rate of 7.692308%. The error rates are used by SerialBERT to determine the Line Grade.
The number of errors per number of transactions.
Either the number of defective transactions or the number of defective steps in a transaction.
The ratio of the amount of data incorrectly received to the total amount of data transmitted.