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  2. Propagation of uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    Any non-linear differentiable function, (,), of two variables, and , can be expanded as + +. If we take the variance on both sides and use the formula [11] for the variance of a linear combination of variables ⁡ (+) = ⁡ + ⁡ + ⁡ (,), then we obtain | | + | | +, where is the standard deviation of the function , is the standard deviation of , is the standard deviation of and = is the ...

  3. Variance - Wikipedia

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    A disadvantage of the variance for practical applications is that, unlike the standard deviation, its units differ from the random variable, which is why the standard deviation is more commonly reported as a measure of dispersion once the calculation is finished. Another disadvantage is that the variance is not finite for many distributions.

  4. Lehmer random number generator - Wikipedia

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    The general formula is X k + 1 = a ⋅ X k mod m , {\displaystyle X_{k+1}=a\cdot X_{k}{\bmod {m}},} where the modulus m is a prime number or a power of a prime number , the multiplier a is an element of high multiplicative order modulo m (e.g., a primitive root modulo n ), and the seed X 0 is coprime to m .

  5. Normal distribution - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, if is a normal deviate with parameters and , then this distribution can be re-scaled and shifted via the formula = / to convert it to the standard normal distribution. This variate is also called the standardized form of X {\textstyle X} .

  6. Arc length - Wikipedia

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    Since it is straightforward to calculate the length of each linear segment (using the Pythagorean theorem in Euclidean space, for example), the total length of the approximation can be found by summation of the lengths of each linear segment; that approximation is known as the (cumulative) chordal distance.

  7. Standard error - Wikipedia

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    General What links here; ... leading the following formula for standard ... The following expressions can be used to calculate the upper and lower 95% ...

  8. t-statistic - Wikipedia

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    Most frequently, t statistics are used in Student's t-tests, a form of statistical hypothesis testing, and in the computation of certain confidence intervals. The key property of the t statistic is that it is a pivotal quantity – while defined in terms of the sample mean, its sampling distribution does not depend on the population parameters, and thus it can be used regardless of what these ...

  9. Scientific notation - Wikipedia

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    It may be referred to as scientific form or standard index form, or standard form in the United Kingdom. This base ten notation is commonly used by scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, in part because it can simplify certain arithmetic operations. On scientific calculators, it is usually known as "SCI" display mode.