In Table II, the standard deviation is proportional to the average and the %RSD is unchanged. Good documentation requires reporting the sample size, average, and standard deviation with the %RSD. The %RSD is misleading when used with data that are expressed as a percentage such as percent recovery. The standard deviation of the data is already in percent. To then find the %RSD is to make the results dependent on the random variation of the average. This defeats the original purpose of estimating the variation of the data values.
Interoperability (pronounced IHN-tuhr-AHP-uhr-uh-BIHL-ih-tee) is the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer.
What does portability mean in the context of programming? Portability means writing your program (code) in such a way that the same code works on different environments i.e. different processors, different operating systems, â¦ different versions of libraries etc. If your program is portable, you should be able to just re-compile it on any new system and it should run without problems. Portability is important because non-portable code causes lots of problems in maintenance - managing multiple versions, poor readability / understandability of the code to name a few.