Physics307L F08:Schedule/Week 6 agenda/Uncertainties
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Key today: Need to assign some uncertainty to every reported measurement
Rough estimates are a great start! (and sometimes only way)
Mean +/- standard error of the mean
aka "standard error", "standard deviation of the mean"
From a collection of measurements
What is the best estimate of the "true value"?
What is the best estimate of the standard deviation of the parent distribution?
What is the best estimate of the standard error of the mean?
Central Limit Theorem Part II
- Central limit theorem (I): (Last week) distribution of averaged measurments ... (II): distribution of single measurement as a result of a bunch of small, independent, random errors.
