standard dev

**miavaro** · April 23rd 2006, 03:44 AM

"Hai"
I hope Somebody help me
2.0±0.2 - 1.0±0.2

(All related to weight")
Thank you !

**CaptainBlack** · April 23rd 2006, 04:18 AM

Originally Posted by miavaro

"Hai"
I hope Somebody help me
2.0±0.2 - 1.0±0.2

(All related to weight")
Thank you !

I'm not sure that anyone will be able to tell what your question is
from this but one interpretation (not the most likely, but this is the
interval arithmetic solution) will give:

$(2 \pm 0.2) - (1 \pm 0.2)=1 \pm 0.4$

RonL

**topsquark** · April 23rd 2006, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by CaptainBlack

I'm not sure that anyone will be able to tell what your question is
from this but one interpretation (not the most likely) )will give:

$(2 \pm 0.2) - (1 \pm 0.2)=1 \pm 0.4$

RonL

I would say that equally likely to CaptainBlack's answer would be the answers:

1) $1.0 \pm 0.2$ assuming the standard error in the measuring instrument is 0.2

2) $1.0 \pm 0.3$ using the propagation of errors technique.
(Define a function f = f(a, b), where we have measurements $a = \bar{a}+\delta a$ and $b=\bar{b}+ \delta b$ . Then $\bar{f} = f(\bar{a}, \bar{b})$ and $\delta f = \sqrt{ \left ( \frac{\partial f}{\partial a} \delta a \right ) ^2 + \left ( \frac{\partial f}{\partial b} \delta b \right ) ^2}$ . )

Lacking any other information, my best guess is that the propagation of errors answer (2) is the answer, though there are many statistical reasons for choosing either of the other two. It depends entirely on how the original error estimates were made.

-Dan

**miavaro** · April 24th 2006, 05:04 PM

thank you

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