(ē´kw&l er´&r rāt)
(n.) Abbreviated as
EER. A biometric security system predetermines the threshold values for its
false acceptance rate and its
false rejection rate, and when the rates are equal, the common value is referred to as the
equal error rate. The value indicates that the proportion of false acceptances is equal to the proportion of false rejections. The lower the equal error rate value, the higher the accuracy of the biometric system.
Also referred to as crossover rate or crossover error rate (CER).
