What really is the question? What kind of error?
On 28 Apr, Selim added some information,
"What I meant with the term error, was the statistical error of a
measurement. I am interessted in the statistical relevance of the
measurement (confidence interval that the measured value is correct
wit
I am sorry for the confusion. English is not my native language and sometimes
I am not precise enough.
What I meant with the term error, was the statistical error of a measurement.
I am interessted in the statistical relevance of the measurement (confidence
interval that the measured value is cor
Rich, I had a thought or two about this problem, or more precisely about
one that may be something like it. Don't know if Selim's problem is
anything like this, but ...
When I was in the U.S. Army many years ago, one of the bits of
military hardware we learned to play with in basic tra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Selim Issever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I measure a physical quantity about 100 times. I am not interessted in the
>mean value but the spread (the RMS) of this quantity. I can calculate the RMS
>easily, but I also need the error on the RMS. Could you give me a h
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:43:08 +0200, Selim Issever
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I measure a physical quantity about 100 times. I am not interessted in the
> mean value but the spread (the RMS) of this quantity. I can calculate the RMS
> easily, but I also need the error on the RMS.
Dear all,
I measure a physical quantity about 100 times. I am not interessted in the
mean value but the spread (the RMS) of this quantity. I can calculate the RMS
easily, but I also need the error on the RMS. Could you give me a hint how to
calculate the error on the rms?
May be I should add, th
