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Re: Error Bar Thoughts [message #74855 is a reply to message #74769]

Wed, 02 February 2011 12:32

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Gray writes:

> It's funny, offsets make more sense to me because that's how results
> are usually quoted: 1.05+0.02-0.06

Another advantage of making the errors actual values, though,
is that it increases the change that the length of the
data vectors and the length of the error vectors will match.
Always a consideration. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Error Bar Thoughts By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 February 2011 09:50
		Re: Error Bar Thoughts By: Jeremy Bailin on Thu, 03 February 2011 04:19
		Re: Error Bar Thoughts By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 02 February 2011 16:48
		Re: Error Bar Thoughts By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 February 2011 15:16
		Re: Error Bar Thoughts By: wlandsman on Wed, 02 February 2011 13:26
		Re: Error Bar Thoughts By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 February 2011 12:32
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