Concept information
Preferred term
propagation of uncertainty
Definition
- In statistics, propagation of uncertainty (or propagation of error) is the effect of variables' uncertainties (or errors, more specifically random errors) on the uncertainty of a function based on them. When the variables are the values of experimental measurements they have uncertainties due to measurement limitations (e.g., instrument precision) which propagate due to the combination of variables in the function. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propagation_of_uncertainty)
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- error growth
- growth of error
- propagation of error
In other languages
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French
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propagation des erreurs
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-S54H0HCP-P
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