Parts of the Whole: Error Estimation for Science Students

It is important for science students to understand not only how to estimate error sizes in measurement data, but also to see how these errors contribute to errors in conclusions they may make about the data. Relatively small errors in measurement, errors in assumptions, and roundoff errors in comput...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorothy Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2017-01-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art11/