The degree to which data has attributes that correctly represent the true value of the intended attribute of a concept or event in a specific context of use.
It has two main aspects:
- Syntactic Accuracy: Syntactic accuracy is defined as the closeness of the data values to a set of values defined in a domain considered syntactically correct.
- Semantic Accuracy: Semantic accuracy is defined as the closeness of the data values to a set of values defined in a domain considered semantically correct.