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:I purposefully skipped the stats and just extracted some equations; hopefully enough to make an interesting task. I think it might be best to leave such extensions to the individual language implementors and have them make notes in their language entry? |
:I purposefully skipped the stats and just extracted some equations; hopefully enough to make an interesting task. I think it might be best to leave such extensions to the individual language implementors and have them make notes in their language entry? |
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:I don't want to further expand the task description with talk of correlations unless their omission really offends those in the know. (University was a few decades ago for me and I haven't made much use of the subject since). --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC) |
:I don't want to further expand the task description with talk of correlations unless their omission really offends those in the know. (University was a few decades ago for me and I haven't made much use of the subject since). --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC) |
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::As long as the task doesn't require operations between correlated errors it doesn't make a difference. Otherwise each uncertainty would have to keep track of the error sources, which will become complicated real fast. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 03:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 03:22, 30 July 2011
Task updates
Unfortunately I probably won't be able to track comments on this draft task for a couple of days as I will be making the most of a weekend with my beautiful partner without our kids. For what it's worth, I had hoped to make this task rather like Quaternion type. (Maybe I should change the name to "Error propagation type")? --Paddy3118 02:59, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
What about correlations?
Even if error of a and b are fully independent, stuff like (a+b) and (a-b) would be (anti)correlated. What to do with those? Ignore? --Ledrug 03:00, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
- I purposefully skipped the stats and just extracted some equations; hopefully enough to make an interesting task. I think it might be best to leave such extensions to the individual language implementors and have them make notes in their language entry?
- I don't want to further expand the task description with talk of correlations unless their omission really offends those in the know. (University was a few decades ago for me and I haven't made much use of the subject since). --Paddy3118 03:13, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
- As long as the task doesn't require operations between correlated errors it doesn't make a difference. Otherwise each uncertainty would have to keep track of the error sources, which will become complicated real fast. --Ledrug 03:22, 30 July 2011 (UTC)